Top 10 Roman Emperors – Aurelian, the Hero Rome Didn’t Deserve
#7: Aurelian – 214/215 – 275 (ruled 270–275) You know that hero everyone needs but doesn’t deserve? Gotham has theirs; Batman is a hero with his heart in the right place but is eventually vilified by the very people he’s saving. Who is Rome’s Batman? Why it’s none other than Aurelian. Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Augustus held the shortest reign of all the emperors on this list. He reigned for only five years, so what exactly could he have done that…