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Back to SearchEpisode LXXXIX - A Man the World Could Not Hold
Determined to end his time as Emperor on a high note, Septimius Severus sets his sights on what is one of the few places in the empire having trouble…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode LXXXVIII – Severan Stories II
Three completely different events in the reign of Septimius Severus.
Act I – If you build it they will come
Septimius Severus was establishing a dyna…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode LXXXVII – Severan Stories I
Three different events in the reign of Septimius Severus.
Act I - A hair of the beard
Gaius Fulvius Plautianus was a trusted relative of Septimius wh…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode LXXXVI – Ascent to Greatness, However Steep and Dangerous
Septimius Severus is now ruler or Rome without opposition, had been all things, and all was of little value. He is now distracted with the care, not …
8 years, 3 months ago
Episode LXXXV - Black and White
Septimius Severus is proclaimed the new Emperor of Rome, but doesn’t have time to rest on his laurels. With rivals to the east and west, not to menti…
8 years, 3 months ago
Episode LXXXIV – The African Emperor
The Roman Empire shudders in the wake of Commodus’ death, which if you recall, was a matter of months but a whole two emperors ago. Striding into Rom…
8 years, 4 months ago
Episode LXXXIII – Didius Julianus
Enraged at the lack of a decent bonus, the Praetorian Guard cut down the newly installed Emperor Pertinax and resolve to sell the throne to the highe…
8 years, 4 months ago
Episode LXXXII - Pertinax
Many saw Pertinax as a safe pair of hands to hold the empire - an old general and close advisor of Antoninus Pius, he represented a regime change fro…
8 years, 5 months ago
Episode LXXXI - Livy
Livy was an historian writing during the Augustan age of Rome, who wrote one of the empire’s most famous works – an extensive and exhaustive history,…
8 years, 5 months ago
Episode LXXX - Dio Cassius
For much of our journey through the Antonine dynasty we’ve had Dio Cassius as our guide. As both a historian and a senator, Dio had a ringside seat t…
8 years, 6 months ago