''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'' (abbreviated as ''PLRE'') is a work of Roman prosopography published in a set of three volumes collectively describing many of the people attested to have lived in the

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from AD 260, the date of the beginning of

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' sole rule, to 641, the date of the death of

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. Sources cited include histories, literary texts, inscriptions, and miscellaneous written sources. Individuals who are known only from dubious sources (e.g., the ''

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''), as well as identifiable people whose names have been lost, are included with signs indicating the reliability. A project of the

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, the work set out with the goal of doing The volumes were published by

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, and involved many authors and contributors. Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, and John Morris were the principal editors. *Volume 1, published on March 2, 1971, comes to 1,176 pages and covers the years from 260 to 395. *Volume 2, published on October 9, 1980, comes to 1,355 pages and covers the years from 395 to 527. *Volume 3, published on October 15, 1992, is itself a two-volume boxed set coming to a total of 1,626 pages and covering the years from 527 to 641. The Prosopography of the Byzantine World project aims to extend the coverage to the year 1265.

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