SeptimiusSeverus: The African Emperor
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1989
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
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Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 291pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first U.S. edition of the revised text (originally published in 1972). Septimius Severus (A.D. 145-211) was a Libyan-born Roman politician who ruled from 193 to 211.
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- Title
- SeptimiusSeverus: The African Emperor
- Author
- BIRLEY, Anthony R.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven
- Publication year
- 1989
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300044674
- ISBN 13
- 9780300044676
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 4 of 22: Roman Imperial Biographies
- Seller catalogs
- Ancient World, Books
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'?
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