The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus by Simon Elliott #foliosociety Washington Cascades

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The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus by Simon Elliott #foliosociety Washington CascadesSeptimius Severus was Rome's black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna, AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211. A giant of an emperor, whose career can be counted in superlatives, Severus was in power at the height of Rome's might. He led the largest army to ever campaign in Britain, comprising 50,000 men, part of a Roman military establishment which peaked at 33