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Postumus, Marcus Cassianius Latinius

 

Died 268. A Roman commander who usurped power in Gaul in 258 under the Roman emperor Gallienus and founded the independent Empire of the Gauls (258–273).

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Anyway, they [my savings] not for long would last, my dearest Postumus. But for the funeral....
Joseph Brodsky's "Letters to a Roman Friend (after Martial)"
The most well-known example is a panel from the Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase (fig.
Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus in Pompeii
Longus might well be a useful comparandum here, especially in connection with the panels in the Red Room of the Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase.
Michael Paschalis, Stelios Panayotakis (EDS): The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel Ancient Narrative Supplementa 17
(22) Tacitus draws memorably on the rhetorical type of the stepmother/bad mother in his savage portraits of Livia Augusta and Agrippina, described as matres impotentes with regard to their sons and saevae novercae to their stepchildren (Agrippa Postumus and Britannicus).
Specters of Medea the rhetoric of stepmotherhood and motherhood in Seneca's Phaedra
There is Postumus, who exploited Gallienus' weakness to establish a secessionist so-called Gallic empire in Spain, Gaul and Britain.
Heads or tails? A late-Roman coin unearthed in an Oxfordshire field and on show in the Ashmolean Museum leads Llewelyn Morgan to ponder the misleading messages on the faces of coins
Postumus' pardon of Iachimo contrasts sharply with Ambrogiuolo's in Boccaccio's tale.
Bandello's "Timbreo and Fenicia" and The Winter's Tale
He paraphrases the opening of Horace's Ode to Postumus (Ode 14, Book ii), in which the ancient poet addresses his friend with bitterness and solemnity: 'Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, | labuntur anni' ('Alas, my Postumus, our years | glide away silently').
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction
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