Deified Emperors of Rome

The source for this chronological list of deified emperors of Rome is the classic work on inscriptions by Sir John Edwin Sandys -- Latin Epigraphy (1927).

• Augustus
• Claudius I
• Vespasian
• Titus
• Nerva
• Trajan
• Hadrian
• Antoninus Pius
• Lucius Verus
• Marcus Aurelius
• Pertinax
• Commodus *
• Septimius Severus
• Geta
• Caracalla
• Severus Alexander
• Gordian I, II, III
• Philip I, II
• Traianus Decius
• Herennius Etruscus
• Valerian I
• Piso Frugi
• Gallienus
• Victorinus
• Claudius II
• Aurelian
• Probus
• Carus
• Numerian
• Maximian I
• Diocletian
• Constantius I
• Maximian II
• Constantine
• Constans
• ConstantiusII
• Julian II
• Jovian
• Valentinian I
• Valens
• Gratian
• Valentinian II
• Theodosius I
• Arcadius
• Constantius III
• Honorius
• Theodosius II
• Valentinian III
• Leo I, II
• Zeno
• Anastasius

* Despite the exclusion of the horrible Julio-Claudians, the deification of an emperor does not mean the emperor was universally approved. Many of the deified emperors had memory of them abolished by decree of the Senate.