Galianus's Throne

Galianus survives for eight years as emperor. He's going to have a tarnished reputation because he never really addresses his father being captured. But if we look at some of the military reforms and the tactics that Gallianus employed, we see he actually made a good go of it. And again, did survive for eight years. Okay. Now this is a bit of an exaggeration. There are problems on all the frontiers, certainly, but the territories across the Danube are not given up to Aurelian’s reign,. so several years afterwards. The woman who controlled the east is Zenobia, and her ascendancy really doesn't begin until after Gallianus'