(Petronius) Maximus: emperor of the West-Roman empire (r.455).Names:
396: Flavius Petronius Maximus
17 March 455: Maximus Augustus
31 May 455: lynched by soldiers
Successor of: Valentinian III
Relatives:
father: Maximus, probably a son of Magnus Maximus
Main deeds:
433 Consul (with Theodosius II consul XIV)
443 Consul II (with…
Peucestas: Macedonian officer in the army of Alexander the Great, satrap of Persis.Peucestas was born in the Macedonian town Mieza (modern Naousa) as the son of an otherwise unknown Alexander. The stages of his early career are unknown to us and…
Phalaris: tyrant of Acragas on Sicily between c.570 and c.554, the proverbial "evil tyrant".The city of Acragas was founded in 580 BCE by people from Gela, a Greek town on Sicily that had been founded more than a century before…
Phameas: Carthaginian cavalry officer during the Third Punic War.
Armor of a Carthaginian officer (Ksour es-Saf)
In the third century BCE, Rome and Carthage…
Pharnabazus (second quarter fifth century BCE): Persian nobleman, after 455 (?) satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia.
Achaemenid nobleman, late sixth/early fifth century…
Pharnaces II (Elamite Parnaka): satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia (c.430-c.422).
Achaemenid nobleman, late sixth/early fifth century BCE.
Pharnaces II was the son of…
Pharnaces I: king of Pontus (r.185-160 BCE).Pharnaces succeeded his father Mithridates III in c.185 BCE and captured Sinope in 183 BCE. This was the beginning of what was called the "Pontic War", in which the kingdom of Pontus had to face…