The Year of Five Emperors: Part 1: Pertinax
by Robert N Eckert
The Year of Five Emperors: Part 1: Pertinax Robert N. Eckert AMAZON.COM The vicious Emperor Commodus is dead, after one cruelty too many. How should a successor be chosen? By election? The Senate chooses the capable bureaucrat Pertinax. By purchase? The Praetorians like Didius Julianus, or at least his money. By inheritance? Clodius Albinus is…
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