Carus

Names:

• ±224: Marcus Aurelius Carus
• September 282: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Carus Augustus 
• August 283: struck by lightning (?)

Relatives:

• children: Numerianus, Carinus

Main deeds:

• ±224 Born in Narbo
• Before 282: consul; apponted as praetorian prefect
• 282 Becomes emperor after the death of Probus; proceeds to Rome
• 283 Consul II (with Carinus); fights against the Sarmatians; accepts the title Germanicus maximus; proceeds to the east; attacks the Sasanian Empire; captures Ctesiphon; accepts the title Persicus maximus; dies
• Damnatio memoriae

Links:

• biography from the Historia Augusta