Emperor Alexander Severus
Title | Emperor Alexander Severus PDF eBook |
Author | John S. McHugh |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 503 |
Release | 2017-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473845823 |
Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander at the Emperor's feet) and foreign invasion. Yet the ancient sources generally present his reign as a golden age of just government, prosperity and religious tolerance Not yet fourteen when he became emperor, Alexander was dominated by his mother, Julia Mammaea and advisors like the historian, Cassius Dio. In the military field, he successfully checked the aggressive Sassanid Persians but some sources see his Persian campaign as a costly failure marked by mutiny and reverses that weakened the army. When Germanic and Sarmatian tribes crossed the Rhine and Danube frontiers in 234, Alexander took the field against them but when he attempted to negotiate to buy time, his soldiers perceived him as weak, assassinated him and replaced him with the soldier Maximinus Thrax. John McHugh reassesses this fascinating emperor in detail.
Emperor Alexander Severus
Title | Emperor Alexander Severus PDF eBook |
Author | John S McHugh |
Publisher | Pen & Sword Books |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-06-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781473845817 |
Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander at the Emperor's feet) and foreign invasion. Yet the ancient sources generally present his reign as a golden age of just government, prosperity and religious tolerance Not yet fourteen when he became emperor, Alexander was dominated by his mother, Julia Mammaea and advisors like the historian, Cassius Dio. In the military field, he successfully checked the aggressive Sassanid Persians but some sources see his Persian campaign as a costly failure marked by mutiny and reverses that weakened the army. When Germanic and Sarmatian tribes crossed the Rhine and Danube frontiers in 234, Alexander took the field against them but when he attempted to negotiate to buy time, his soldiers perceived him as weak, assassinated him and replaced him with the soldier Maximinus Thrax. John McHugh reassesses this fascinating emperor in detail.
The Life of Alexander Severus
Title | The Life of Alexander Severus PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Rome |
ISBN |
A most excellent eloquent speech, made, not by an irreligious noble peer; but by a most noble and wise emperor, viz., Alexander Severus, to the common people of Rome, made English
Title | A most excellent eloquent speech, made, not by an irreligious noble peer; but by a most noble and wise emperor, viz., Alexander Severus, to the common people of Rome, made English PDF eBook |
Author | emperor Marcus Aurelius Alexander Severus (pseud.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1683 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Exercitus Moesiae
Title | Exercitus Moesiae PDF eBook |
Author | Conor Whately |
Publisher | British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781407314754 |
This book is a military organisational history of the Roman Empire on the lower Danube from the emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC-AD 14) to the emperor Severus Alexander (r. AD 222-235). Using a diverse body of evidence, from Roman military diplomas to funerary inscriptions and literary sources, the book looks at changes in troop disposition involving the legions, auxiliary units, the vexillations and the naval units based in Moesia Superior and Inferior, and around the northern and western coasts of the Black Sea. The book also examines the emplacement of the region's units, and contextualises both the disposition of troops and their emplacement in terms of regional strategy and the strategy of the empire as a whole. Besides the discussion and analysis, the book also includes detailed maps of the region and useful tables that summarise the results.
The Life and Reign of the Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus
Title | The Life and Reign of the Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Platnauer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Emperors |
ISBN |
The Army of Maximinus Thrax
Title | The Army of Maximinus Thrax PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Easchbach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2020-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783963600258 |