Aurelius Achilleus ( 297–298 AD) was a rebel against the Roman emperor

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in 297 AD. All literary sources name Achilleus as an imperial pretender and the leader of the rebellion, but numismatic and papyrological evidence attribute that role to

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instead. Egyptian papyri instead attest Achilleus as ''

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'' under Domitianus. He seems to have succeeded to leadership of the rebellion after Domitianus died in December 297. Achilleus was at length taken by Diocletian after a siege of eight months in

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, and put to death in 298 AD.

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''De Caesaribus'' 39

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