The life of the Roman emperor Gera is ... who either proclaimed the same thing or argued that Pertinax should never have become emperor. During this endeavor, Septimius had at one point allied ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Greenhill / Philadelphia: Pen & Sword, 2020. Pp. x, 214+. Illus., map, tables, chron., biblio., index. $42.95. ISBN: 1784385255 A Most Unusual and ...

After Commodus’s death, Pertinax was named the emperor, but he rankled the Praetorian ... “Loyalty, or fides, was what Roman rulers most prized from people. Severus magnanimously responds ...

One of the funniest works of Roman literature to survive—and the ... had been used in the official funeral celebrations of the Emperor Pertinax, in 193 C.E., which were held three months after ...

According to Pearson and his team of researchers, the coins contain elements that match authentic Roman coins, suggesting Sponsian was a real emperor after all. "We know absolutely nothing about ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

In 1713, a cache of Roman coins was discovered in Transylvania, several of which bore the portrait and name of Sponsian—but there are no historical records of a Roman emperor with that name.

The figure of the Roman emperor still conjures up an array of familiar images, monuments and (often sordid) tales. These bygone rulers feature in our films; their portraits line our museums ...