Septimius Severus
The Ancients
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The Year of the Five Empresses
The year of the five empress is a misnomerous sense because it was the beginning of a civil war. Two of the five actually are rivals for the throne at the same time that Severus seizes the throne himself and has to then spend the next few years fighting off these rivals. So he's very clever, every aspect of his career progression is clever almost like he felt he was born to greatness. He makes Claudius albinus in Britain his Caesar the junior emperor. But while he's there in 196, remember he becomes the emperor in 193,. While he'sThere in 1960 receives word that Claudius al binus has wised up to the fact that he's been
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