Gannys
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Gannys
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Gannys was a Roman general who commanded the troops of Elagabalus against Emperor Macrinus in the Battle of Antioch. According to Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The contemporary historian Cassius Dio writes: On the way to Rome, Elagabalus and his entourage spent the winter of 218 in Bithynia at Nicomedia, where Gannys was put to death. Cassius Dio suggests that Gannys, a virtual "foster-father and guardian" to the new emperor, was killed because he pressured Elagabalu
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Roman general and tutor of emperor Elagabalus (died 218)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gannys
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2023-03-15T06:37:54Z
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