Prisco Atalo

Moneda de Prisco Atalo.

Prisco Atalo (in Latin, Priscus Attalus, 416) was twice usurper of the Roman Empire (in 409 and 414), against the Roman Emperor Honorius and with the support of the Visigothic people.

Prisco was an important senator of the Empire, who served as a praefectus urbi in 409. He was proclaimed emperor by the Visigoths twice, in an attempt to impose his own conditions on the ineffective Emperor Honorius in Ravenna. He acquired the title of emperor in Rome during 409 and later in Bordeaux in 414. His two reigns lasted only a few months, the first ending when Alarico believed that he was making negotiations difficult with Honorius, and the second ended when he was abandoned by the barbarians and ended up being captured by the emperor's men. Atalo was forced to participate in the triumph organized by Honorio in the streets of Rome in 416, before ending his days exiled in the Lipari Islands.

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