
112- Captured Alive
The History of Rome
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Cyprian's Death and the Revolt of Ingenus Along the Danube
Three big things happen during this two year period that we have trouble dating and putting in order. The battle of edessa and valerian's subsequent capture by the sisonids, the death of his grandson, valerian the second, and the revolt of ingenus along the danube. Two 60 a d as the water shed year when the empire really melted down - with news reaching galeenus almost simultaneously that the sasanis had captured his father. And then lucius demitius arelianus, the unconquered restorer of the world, put the pieces back together again in early two seventies.
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