Roman usurper

Roman usurpers were individuals or groups of individuals who obtained or tried to obtain power by force and without legitimate legal authority.[1] Usurpation was endemic during the Roman imperial era, especially from the crisis of the third century onwards, when political instability became the rule.

  1. ^ Omissi, Adrastos (2018). Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-255827-5.

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