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Numismatics. --- Severus Alexander, --- Coins. --- Septimius Severus, Lucius

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Heads of state --- Chefs d'Etat --- Biography --- Biographies --- Severus, Lucius Septimius, --- Rome --- History --- Histoire --- Septimius Severus, Lucius

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In this, the only biography of Septimius Severus in English, Anthony R. Birley explors how 'Roman' or otherwise this man was and examines his remarkable background and career.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'?

Emperors --- Severus, Lucius Septimius, --- Septimius Severus, --- Settimio Severo, --- Severo, Settimio, --- Septime Sévère, --- Sévère, Septime, --- Rome --- History

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The Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211 A.D.) originated from the North-African town of Lepcis Magna. His reign is seen as a time in which profound changes within Roman society became evident resulting in many provincials achieving important positions in the Roman state. The book examines this development from the perspective of a possible use of the non-Italian home and deities of the Emperor within Imperial iconographics. Important evidence for that are the native deities propagated by the Emperor. The book further discusses the relationship of Severus towards Roman gods and a possible sacralisation of the Emperor which might suggest changing attitudes towards the Emperor. The latter however has to be critically assessed and asked who was responsible for certain images. Was it the Imperial house or were it other groups? Der römische Kaiser Septimius Severus (193-211 n. Chr.) stammte aus dem nordafrikanischen Lepcis Magna. Seine Regierung wird als eine Zeit des Umbruchs charakterisiert, geprägt von einer Veränderung der römischen Gesellschaft, in die nun immer mehr Provinzialen in führende Positionen kamen und eine Verschiebung des Zentrums weg von Rom erfolgte. In dem Buch wird dieser Entwicklung aus der Perspektive der möglichen Instrumentalisierung einer nicht-italischen Heimat des Kaisers in der kaiserlichen Repräsentation nachgegangen. Wichtigstes Zeugnis dafür sind heimatliche Götter, die vom Kaiserhaus propagiert wurden. Außerdem betrachtet das Buch die religionspolitischen Schwerpunktsetzungen des Kaisers und die auf seine Person bezogenen Sakralisierungstendenzen, die auf eine möglicherweise veränderte Auffassung des Kaisertums zurückschließen lassen, wobei insbesondere zu fragen ist, ob dies auf das Kaiserhaus oder andere Gruppen zurückzuführen ist.

Religion and state --- Religion --- Gods, Roman. --- Social aspects --- Severus, Lucius Septimius, --- Rome --- History --- Religion. --- Roman gods --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Septimius Severus, --- Settimio Severo, --- Severo, Settimio, --- Septime Sévère, --- Sévère, Septime,

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Legislators --- Sénateurs --- Severus, Lucius Septimius, --- Severus Alexander --- Rome --- Officials and employees. --- Politics and government --- Fonctionnaires --- Politique et gouvernement --- Senatorenstand. --- Personalpolitik. --- Prosopographie. --- Employees. --- Political participation. --- Severus Alexander, --- Septimius Severus, --- Political activity. --- Römisches Reich --- 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Römisches Reich. --- Sénateurs