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LOST ROMAN HEROES

LOST ROMAN HEROES

Matteo & Matthew Storm

Two nerds-for-Rome that explore the lives and times of lost Roman heroes, from Aeneas to Constantine the XI, the Marble Emperor, and rank them for their cool hero-ness….

Categories: Education

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Valentinian, son of the Rope Man, emerged from dad's shadow, paid his dues in the army, and was in the right place at the right time when Julian's short-lived successor Jovian died somewhere outside Ancyra. Rising to the purple with his brother Valens (Adrianople anyone?) by his side, Valentinian would go on to rule from the west, holding the Rhine, recovering Britannia, and quashing rebelling in Africaa. He would be the last truly dominant Roman Emperor to rule the West, with the help of two savage she-bears, but was he a hero?