Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Plates

List of Maps

Introduction

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Sources and Analysis

Chapter 2 The Roman Empire in 268

Chapter 3 Youth and Career of Aurelian and Probus until 268

Chapter 4 The Reign of Claudius II ‘Gothicus’ in 268–270

Chapter 5 Aurelian (Aurelianus) The Beginning of the Reign in 270–71

Chapter 6 Aurelian vs. Zenobia 271–272

Chapter 7 The Wars against the Palmyrene Rebels, Carpi and Firmus of Egypt in 272–3

Chapter 8 Aurelian in the West 274–5

Chapter 9 Aurelian, the Man with Perfect Ability in War

Chapter 10 Tacitus 275–6

Chapter 11 The Struggle for Dominance: Probus vs. Florianus

Chapter 12 Probus the Fireman

Chapter 13 Probus. The Military Intellectual

Chapter 14 The Reigns of Carus (282–3), Carinus (282–5) and Numerianus (282–4)

Appendix I: Modestus, Vegetius, and the Late Third Century Army

Appendix II: The Problem of Third Century Drungus/Droungos as a Military Unit

Notes

Bibliography