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... have been relatively unimportant until promoted to a state cult under the Aurelian emperors as Sol Invictus. The worship of Sol Invictus was elevated to a state cult by the emperor Aurelian in 274. He built a temple and founded a second pontifical college, the ''po

...learly see the tall masts of the quinquiremes docked in the port along the Aurelian Wall, which were hidden in the morning fog bank along the Tiber. The rider

...arger areas under the Republic, Sulla, Augusutus and, finally, the Emperor Aurelian, after he had enlarged the walls of the city in the third century. (See als

...e residence, this was turned into an imperial estate centre by the emperor Aurelian in 275AD. Specifically, to command the grain-growing centre of the River Ou