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... have been relatively unimportant until promoted to a state cult under the Aurelian emperors as Sol Invictus. The worship of Sol Invictus was elevated to a state cult by the emperor Aurelian in 274. He built a temple and founded a second pontifical college, the ''po

...learly see the tall masts of the quinquiremes docked in the port along the Aurelian Wall, which were hidden in the morning fog bank along the Tiber. The rider

...tory down to the end of the republic. Under the early emperors, we find an Aurelian family of the name of Fulvus, from which the Roman emperor Antoninus was de The wife of Aurelian, we learn from coins and inscriptions, was Ulpia Severina, and, as was rema

...arger areas under the Republic, Sulla, Augusutus and, finally, the Emperor Aurelian, after he had enlarged the walls of the city in the third century. (See als

...e residence, this was turned into an imperial estate centre by the emperor Aurelian in 275AD. Specifically, to command the grain-growing centre of the River Ou