# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herodian
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:48:12.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herodian"
name: "Herodian"
slug: "herodian"
description: "Herodian or Herodianus, sometimes referred to as Herodian of Antioch, was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled History of the Empire from Marcus onwards in eight books covering the years 180 to 238. His work is not considered entirely reliable, although his less biased account of Elagabalus may be more useful than that of Cassius Dio. The origin of Herodian is contested in scholarship, popular hypotheses being Syria, Alexandria in Egypt, or Asia Minor. However, he appears to have lived for a considerable period of time in Rome, possibly without holding any public office. From his extant work, it seems that he was still living at an advanced age during the reign of Gordianus III, who ascended the throne in 238. Beyond this, nothing is known of his life."
tagline: "Greco-Roman official and historian (c.170–c.240)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herodiani_editio_Aldina_bilinguis_1524_titulus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "170"
deathDate: "250"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.97
  momentum:             0.3846153846153846
  historical:           20.83636533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodianus"
    title: "Herodianus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هيروديان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هيروديان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodian"
    title: "Herodian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%BD"
    title: "Герадыян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD_(%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Херодиан (историк)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodianus"
    title: "Herodianus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodi%C3%A0_(historiador)"
    title: "Herodià (historiador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodianos"
    title: "Herodianos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodian"
    title: "Herodian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%97%CF%81%CF%89%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82_(%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82)"
    title: "Ηρωδιανός (ιστορικός)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodian"
    title: "Herodian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodiano"
    title: "Herodiano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodiano"
    title: "Herodiano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "هرودین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodianos"
    title: "Herodianos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9rodien"
    title: "Hérodien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodianus"
    title: "Herodianus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodiano"
    title: "Herodiano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "הרודיאנוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9r%C3%B3dianosz_(t%C3%B6rt%C3%A9net%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "Héródianosz (történetíró)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%A4%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D5%BD"
    title: "Հերոդիանոս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodiano"
    title: "Erodiano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%AD%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8C%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ヘロディアヌス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodianus"
    title: "Herodianus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313056"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump