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Encyclopedia > Gaius Pescennius Niger Justus

Pescennius Niger (c. 140–194) was an Emperor in the eastern Roman Empire from 193 to 194.


He was a governor of Syria who was proclaimed emperor by the eastern legions after the murder of Pertinax and the auctioning off of the imperial title to Didius Julianus. Another rebel general, Septimus Severus, succeeding in taking Rome first, and he then marched east to confront Niger. Niger was defeated at Issus and retreated to Antioch, but was killed while attempting to flee to Parthia.


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Roman Emperors - DIR Pescennius Niger (970 words)
Gaius Pescennius Niger was governor of Syria in the year 193 when he learned of the emperor Pertinax's murder.
Niger was made a suffect consul, probably in the late 180s, and he was sent as governor to the important province of Syria in 191.
Niger was ultimately unable to make himself the true avenger of Pertinax, and his roughly one-year control of the eastern provinces never qualified him to be reckoned a legitimate emperor.
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