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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455154903321

Autore

Birley Anthony Richard

Titolo

Septimius Severus : the African emperor / / Anthony R. Birley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-70746-0

1-280-33248-4

0-203-02859-7

0-203-17145-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Roman Imperial Biographies

Disciplina

937/.07/092

B

Soggetti

Emperors - Rome

Electronic books.

Rome History Lucius Septimius Severus, 193-211

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-274) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Note to the paperback edition; The Emporia; Lepcis Magna: From Free State to Colonia; Life in Roman Tripolitania; The Broad Stripe; Into the Emperor's Service; A Caesar Born to the Purple; The Great Marshal; Julia Domna; The Conspirators; The Year 193; The War against Niger; The War against Albinus; Parthia and Egypt; Return to Africa; The Years in Italy; Expeditio Felicissima Brittannica; Aftermath and Assessment; Abbreviations used in Appendices and Notes; Ancient Sources and Modern Scholarship

The Septimii and Fulvii of Lepcis Magna, the Julii of Emesa, and their connectionsReferences and Notes; Bibliographies; Addenda (1999); Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this, the only biography of Septimius Severus in English, Anthony R. Birley explors how 'Roman' or otherwise this man was and examines his remarkable background and career.Severus was descended from Phoenician settlers in Tripolitania, and his reign, AD 193-211, represents a key point in Roman history. Birley explores what was African and what was Roman in Septimius' background, given that he



came from an African city. He asks whether Septimius was a 'typical cosmopolitan bureaucrat', a 'new Hannibal on the throne of Caesar' or 'principle author of the decline of the Roman Empire'?