Carausius (286-293), rebel emperor of Roman Britain

A talk about the remarkable Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius who declared a breakaway regime in the Roman province of Britain in 286. He ruled for seven years until he was murdered by his minister Allectus, who was himself defeated and killed by the legitimate regime of Diocletian and Maximian in 296. Carausius is most celebrated today for his remarkable coinage and his interest in claiming to be restoring the Roman world in Britain after decades of disorder. To do this, he utilized imagery and words from the Augustan poet Vergil, which it was my privilege to discover two major pieces of evidence for. No other Roman emperor ever utilized classical literature to support his regime's ideology this way. Guy de la Bedoyere