Avidius Cassius

Names:

• c.120/130: Gaius Avidius Heliodorus, probably in Alexandria
• April 175: Imperator Caesar Gaius Avidius Cassius Augustus
• July 175: murdered by officers

• father: Gaius Avidius Heliodorus
• married to: Volusia (?)
• children: Heliodorus, Maecianus, Alexandria

• 166: Consul
• 172: Successor of Lucius Verus as supreme commander of the Roman forces in the East;
• April 175: revolted against Marcus Aurelius
• Famous, one word letter from Herodes Atticus: emanês, 'you have gone mad'
• July 175: murdered by officers
• Damnatio memoriae

• biography included in the Historia Augusta