Talk:Philip the Arab
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In fact, nowadays most scholars think that Gordian was wounded in the battle against Sapor and died shortly after. So, Philip did not kill him. Very piously, he built a huge mausoleum to his emperor. See D. Macdonald, "The Death of Gordian III. Another Tradition", Historia, 30, 1980 ; B. Bleckmann, "Die Reichskrise des III Jahrhunderts in der spätantiken, etc.", München 1991 ; X. Loriot, "Les premières années de la grande crise, etc.", ANRW II, 2.
Why was he called "the Arab"? Anyone knows? --Nahum 21:18, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
He was of Arab ethnicity. Kuralyov 03:07, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
