Aurelian

Aurelian is represented in the linked non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, religion, belief and institutional authority, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In non-fiction, Aurelian is discussed in Nick Holmes’s The Roman Revolution. In Nick Holmes’s The Roman Revolution, Nick Holmes follows the pressure exerted by Sasanian Persia and northern peoples, the capture of Valerian, the formation of the Gallic and Palmyrene breakaway empires, and the efforts of Gallienus and Aurelian to preserve and reunify Roman territory.