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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.