In 193 AD, Pertinax was the one who succeeded Commodus ... This means that Macrinus was the only Roman Emperor to have never ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

When he says something, people listen." While that's the authoritative command you're looking for when casting a Roman emperor, Hopkins makes clear that the decree was solely for the benefit of ...