The Late Empire in Rome and the Provinces

Fikret Yegül; Diane Favro

doi:10.1017/9780511979743.013

12 - The Late Empire in Rome and the Provinces

From the Severans to Constantine

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2019

Fikret Yegül and

Diane Favro

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Fikret Yegül: Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Diane Favro: Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles

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The assassination of Commodus in 193 ce initiated the transition from the Antonines to the Severans. Septimius Severus, the military governor of Pannonia (Hungary), was the first to march and reach Rome among several contenders to the throne, each proclaimed emperor by the armies they commanded. This was not the first time the making of an emperor was based on military power rather than approval by the ranks of Roman aristocracy and the Senate, but it firmly established the questionable system that continued into the third century and contributed to, if not caused, the long period of civic and economic instability that characterized the Late Empire.

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Information: Roman Architecture and Urbanism
From the Origins to Late Antiquity
, pp. 800 - 862

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511979743.013 [Opens in a new window]

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