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 ...

After the emperor Commodus' assassination in A.D. 192 (instigated by the leader of the Praetorian Guard), the Roman Empire entered a period known as the "Year of the Five Emperors." Pertinax ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Graham Bowley An ancient bronze thought to be a likeness of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus is to be reunited with its long lost torso after a Danish museum agreed that its sculpture of a ...