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 Gertha University

in Frankfurt, Germany.

This is episode CLXVI, the Edict of Sacrifice.

During the early days of his reign Emperor Adaceus issued an edict, commanding that all Romans

should make a sacrifice for the good of the Empire.

While some happily went along with it for the good of the Empire, for others it went against

what they believed in, and not everyone living within the borders of Rome were happy with

the Emperor's wishes.

Here's Kaelin Davenport.

So Odysseus was born around the year 190, in a village called Budalia, which was near

the town of Sermium in Pannonia in Furia, so that's a modern day Serbia to give you an

idea of the region that we're talking about, so he came from the modern day Balkans.

His full name, wait for it, Gaius Messius Quintus Odysseus Valerianus or Valerinas were

not quite sure.

So he comes from the Balkan regions.

He may be Anthony Burley suggests the descendant of an army officer.

We don't know too much more.

We can speculate Sermium had been a Roman colony since the Flavian period, and it was inhabited

by the descendants of Roman soldiers and by native Pannonians, so Odysseus himself could

have been a descendant of a soldier, a Pannonian or both.

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