Welcome to Totalisus Rankium.

I am Jamie.

And I'm Rob ranking all of the emperors from Augustus to Augustulus.

This is episode 40.

Oh.

We're halfway through the poster that sits behind us.

Yeah?

Although not halfway through the list that I compiled, which means there must be someone missing from the poster. But never mind. We are doing Galeanus this week. We are indeed. Son of Valerian. Yes, yeah, he is. Yes. Valerian, you were quite impressed with, weren't you? I was. I thought he kept the empire together. He made it stable, ish. Well, he didn't at all, actually. He didn't at all, but he held it to the other longer than an emperor has for a long time. Yeah. With all situations. So what about his son? Do you think he's going to live up to his father? I don't know. I hope so. Hedge and you bets there. Okay. Well, we'll see. We will. Just like last week, it's very hard to pin down these dates. Right. So again, I've gone with one way it could have played out. Okay, do. Bear in mind that these could have easily occurred in different orders. We don't really know what happened. We know roughly what happened. Just no idea when. That's 2,000 years ago. Yeah, we're going to roll with this. Okay, so we're going to jump right into it. Gallienus, born Publius, lysinus, Ignatius, Gallianus. In around 2.18, but we're not really sure. So 2.18-ish. 2.18-ish, yes. His mother was

Egy M from last week, if you remember. Yeah. And father obviously was the Emperor

Belaeran. And he may have been born in Etrusca. But who knows? And that's it. That's all

the early stuff we've got on him.

And he grew up. He grew up at some point. Because in the 240s, Gallienus got married to a woman named Cornelia Salonia. That's a long time to get married, isn't it? The whole decade. Well, he's born in 218. You got married in 2.40s. That's a long time. Oh, I thought you meant in the two-forties he got married, indicating that it took him the whole decade.

Actually, it's not that long, is it? He'd have been 22.

22, so...

That's right, no mind. Ignore me.

All good.

This is why I don't do the research.

Together they have three sons.

Valerianus, Saloninius, and Marinianus.

Hard names to say.

We have no idea about the movements of Gallianus before he was the emperor, unfortunately.

But let's just assume that he was up with his father on the Rhine

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