Murder at the Praetorian barracks
· Castra Praetoria, Rome, Italy
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International · file Praetorians seized Balbinus and Pupienus during the Capitoline Games, dragged them from the palace through Rome, and killed them at their camp. The date follows a common modern reconstruction; the chronology of events in 238 is disputed in the surviving evidence.
