Aurelian is one of those Roman emperors people forget until you actually read what he did… He came to power when the empire was falling apart, split into three pieces, bankrupt, invaded on every frontier, and run by generals who lasted months before being assassinated. He smashed the armies on the Danube, took back the eastern provinces from Queen Zenobia, collapsed the breakaway Gallic Empire, fixed the grain supply, restored the currency, and started building the gigantic walls around Rome tha