Are they?

And welcome to Emperor's of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Associate Professor Kaelin Davenport, Senior

Lecturer in Roman history at Macquarie University and Humboldt Research Fellow at Gerthe University

in Frankfurt, Germany.

This is Episode C-L-X-V, Philip.

When Philip became emperor in 244 CE, Rome was cracking at the edges.

Enemies were at the border, the economy was straining, and the emperor was an easy target

for a disgruntled military who could possibly want to rule Rome at this time.

And unrelated to that statement, here's Kaelin Davenport.

Philip was a Roman emperor of the 3rd century CE, and he ruled for five years between

244 and 249.

So people who've listened to the Gordian 3rd podcast may remember, he was one of Gordian's

Petroleum Prefects, who probably arranged his death after the Roman army were defeated

in battle against the Persian Shahan Shah Shippur.

So for Philip, we are using a lot of the sources that we did for Gordian and for other

emperors that will be covering around this time, but we don't have the history at August

at Dewey.

That's right.

So after the lives of the 3 Gordians, the Historic Augusta doesn't pick up again until

the end of the lives of the 2 Valerians.

So this is the late 250's.

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