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  LUCIUS SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS - LoveToKnow Article on LUCIUS SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At twenty- six, that is, almost at the earliest age allowed by law, Severus attained the quaestorship and a seat in the senate, and proceeded as quaestor mililaris to the senatorial province of Baetica, in the Peninsula.
While Severus was absent in Africa in consequence of the death of his father, the province of Baetica, disordered by Moorish invasions and internal commotion, was taken over by the emperor, who gave the senate Sardinia in exchange.
Severus had confided much of the administration of the empire to Plautianus, the commander of the reorganized Praetorians, who is described by the ancient historians as a second Sejanus.
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 Alexander Severus - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
Alexander Severus (Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander), född 1 oktober 208 i Arca Caesarea, Fenicien, död 18 mars 235 i Tyskland (mördad), romersk kejsare 13 mars 222 - 18 mars 235.
Alexander Severus utsågs till romersk kejsare 13 mars 222 av militärer, två dagar efter att den förre kejsaren mördats.
Alexander Severus tog nu omkring tretton år gammal över efter sin kusin Heliogabalus.
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 Encyclopedia: Alexander Severus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexandrus (October 1, 208- March 18?, 235), commonly called Alexander Severus, Roman emperor from 222 to 235, was born at Arca Caesarea in Palestine.
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Events Pope Urban I succeeds Pope Callixtus I Roman Emperor Alexander Severus succeeds Heliogabalus Kingdom of Wu is established in China Sun Quan defeats Liu Bei at the Battle of Yi Ling Deaths March 11 - Roman Emperor Heliogabalus murdered Tertullian, theologian Pope Callixtus I Claudius Aelianus, teacher and rhetorician Ma...
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 Severus Alexander - Wikipedia
Severus Alexander wird von den römischen Historikern - vor allem von Cassius Dio, der unter ihm als Konsul tätig war - als sehr abgeklärt, ruhig und friedliebend beschrieben, ganz im Gegensatz zu seinem fanatischen Vorgänger.
Doch er entpuppte sich als komplette Fehlbesetzung: Nach mehrtätigen, blutigen Krawallen in Rom ließ Ulpianus seine beiden Amtskollegen auf Wunsch der beiden mächtigen Frauen hinrichten, was in seiner Ermordung durch seine eigenen Soldaten endete.
Alexander flüchtete sich ins kaiserliche Zelt und warf seiner mit anwesenden Mutter vor, an der Situation schuld zu sein.
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 Alexander Severus -- Alexander Severus (Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander), ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Alexander Severus (Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander), född 1 oktober 208 i Arca Caesarea, Fenicien, död 235 i Tyskland, kejsare 222-235.
Alexander Severus utsågs till romersk kejsare den 13 mars 222 av militärer, två dagar efter att den förre kejsaren mördats.
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 Severus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Severus (Lucius Septimius Severus), Roman Emperor Entry on Severus (Lucius Septimius Severus), Roman emperor from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
Alexander Severus Overview of the life and reign of the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus.
Alexander Severus Entry for the Roam ruler at the Catholic Encyclopedia.
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 SEVERUS ALEXANDER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Severus Alexander 208 - 235, ook vaak Alexander Severus genoemd, geboren als Marcus Julius Gessius Alexianus (of volgens andere bronnen Gessius Bassianus Alexianus) in Caesarea sub Libano in Phoenicië, later bekend als Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander was keizer van Rome van 222 - 235.
Geheel in tegenstelling tot zijn voorganger, was Severus Alexander een gematigde en zachtmoedige keizer.
Elagabalus werd vermoord en de jonge Alexander Severus eerst onder voogdij van zijn grootmoeder en na haar dood van zijn moeder Julia Mamaea de nieuwe keizer.
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 Alexander Severus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In next year on March 11 Heliogabalus was murdered and Alexander was emperor by the Praetorians and accepted by the senate.
Mutinies became frequent in parts of the empire; to one of the life of the jurist and praetorian Ulpian was sacrificed; another compelled the retirement Dio Cassius from his command.
Alexander was the last of the Syrian During his reign acting as he did most things under the influence of his he did much to improve the morals condition of the people.
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 Alexander Severus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander (October 1, 208 - March 18 ?, 235), commonly called Alexander Severus, Romanemperor from AD 222 to 235, was born at Arca Caesarea in Palestine.
In thenext year, on March 11, Heliogabalus was murdered, and Alexander was proclaimedemperor by the Praetorians and accepted by the senate.
Mutinies became frequent in all parts of the empire; to one ofthem the life of the jurist and praetorian praefect Ulpian was sacrificed; another compelled the retirement of Dio Cassius from his command.
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 Historians
The accounts of Severus Alexander's life are very limited by contemporary ancient historians and their usefulness is widely debated.
The section "The Life of Severus Alexander" was supposedly written by Lampridius.
Severus Alexander and the Severan Women by Robert L. Cleve, PhD, is the most comprehensive work I've read on Severus Alexander and the women who guided his life.
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 Severus Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Severus Alexander 208 - 235 ook vaak Alexander Severus genoemd geboren als Marcus Julius Gessius Alexianus (of volgens andere bronnen Gessius Bassianus Alexianus) in Caesarea sub Libano in Phoenicië bekend als Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander was keizer van Rome van 222 - 235.
Elagabalus werd vermoord en jonge Alexander Severus eerst onder voogdij van grootmoeder en na haar dood van zijn Julia Mamaea de nieuwe keizer.
Hoewel Severus Alexander met zijn voogdij Rome een kundig en gematigd bestuur verschafte ontstond al gauw onrust tegen het vrouwenbewind.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Alexander Severus
Herodian, whose history covered the period 180-238, was a contemporary of Severus Alexander, and his coverage of the latter's reign is extensive.
M 27), was perhaps raised to the rank of Caesar by Alexander and was put to death in 227 on a charge of attempted murder of the emperor.
Perhaps the greatest service which Alexander furnished Rome, certainly at the beginning of his reign, was the return to a sense of sanity and tradition after the madness and fanaticism of Elagabalus.
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 Alexander Severus
His entire elevation was in fact part of a plot by the powerful Julia Maesa, grandmother to both Elagabalus and Alexander, to rid herself of Elagabalus and instead substitute him on the throne with Alexander.
Alexander and Mamaea therefore returned to Rome to hold a triumphal march through the streets of the capital in the autumn of AD 233.
Alexander and Julia Mamaea were both murdered by their own troops (March AD 235).
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 4Reference || Alexander Severus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the whole, however, the reign of Alexander was prosperous till he was summoned to the East to face the new power of the Sassanid dynasty.
Of the war that followed we have very various accounts; #redirect Theodor Mommsen leans to that which is least favourable to the Romans.
The emperor returned to Rome and celebrated a triumph (233), but next year he was called to face German invaders in Gaul, where he was slain (on either 19 235), together with his mother, in a mutiny which was probably led by Maximinus Thrax, a Thracian legionary, and at any rate secured him the throne.
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 Severus Alexander
Severus Alexander wird von den römischen - vor allem von Cassius Dio der unter ihm als Konsul tätig war - als sehr abgeklärt und friedliebend beschrieben ganz im Gegensatz zu fanatischen Vorgänger.
Doch er entpuppte sich als komplette Nach mehrtätigen blutigen Krawallen in Rom ließ Ulpianus seine beiden Amtskollegen auf der beiden mächtigen Frauen hinrichten was in Ermordung durch seine eigenen Soldaten endete.
Alexander flüchtete sich ins Zelt und warf seiner mit anwesenden Mutter an der Situation schuld zu sein.
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Severus, a native African who came to Rome at seventeen well-schooled in Greek and Latin and who worked in the imperial bureaucracy of Marcus Aurelius as well as assuming military commands, was acclaimed emperor by his troops in Upper Panonia.
Severus and Julia Domna, recognizing that all was not quite right with Caracalla had him appoint Geta, his younger brother as co-ruler.
Alexander Severus went East after the fall of Parthia in 230, he was forced to deal with Persians.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lucius Perpetuus Aurelianus Marius Maximus
During the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211) he was made consul for the first time shortly after 197, and in 217 Macrinus appointed him prefect.
In the reign of Alexander Severus (222-235) he was, in 223, appointed consul for the second time and governed the Provinces of Asia and Africa as proconsul, these offices being due to the special favour of the emperor.
As the biographies stop with Heliogabalus, although Maximus was intimately connected with Alexander Severus, it is supposed that he did not survive the latter emperor during whose reign, it is thought, his work was probably written.
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 Alexander Severus Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ GreatArtworks.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Dionysopolis AE19 Moushmov 105 of Severus Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Severus Alexander Æ 19 of Dionysopolis, Moesia Superior.
Severus Alexander was a serious minded emperor who was quite a relief for the empire after his cousin, Elagabalus, was removed in 222 AD.
He served very respectably until 235 AD under the tutelege of his grandmother Julia Mamaea, until he was overthrown and killed by the forces of Maximinus Thrax.
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 SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Severus Alexander, ursprünglich Alexianus Bassianus, war der Sohn von Julia Mamaea und wurde auf deren Betreiben hin von Elagabal, seinem Cousin, im Jahre 221 adoptiert.
Severus Alexander regierte das Reich weise und gut und der Zustand des Staates verbesserte sich wesentlich.
Severus Alexander und Julia Mamaea wurden in ihrem Lager nahe Mainz am 22.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alexander Severus
When Elagabalus, his cousin and father by adoption, was murdered in 222, Alexander succeeded to the imperial throne.
Her son Alexander was certainly very favorable to the Christians.
The surname "Severus", no less than the manner in which both he and Mammaea met their death, indicate the temper of his administration.
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 The Severan Dynasty (193-235 A.D.) | Special Topics Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was Septimius Severus who erected the famous triumphal arch in the Roman Forum, an important vehicle of political propaganda that proclaimed the legitimacy of the Severan dynasty and celebrated the emperor's victories against
The imperial court, however, was dominated by formidable women who arranged the succession of Elagabalus in 218 A.D., and Alexander Severus, the last of the line, in 222 A.D. In the last phase of the Severan principate, the power of the Senate was finally revived and a number of fiscal reforms were enacted.
The death of Alexander Severus signaled the age of the soldier-emperors and almost a half-century of civil war and strife.
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 Septimius Severus - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
Geboren wurde Septimius Severus in Leptis Magna 100 Kilometer südöstlich von Karthago, an der nördlichen Küste der Provinz Africa.
In den späten Jahren seiner Herrschaft musste Septimius Severus zahlreiche Verteidigungsfeldzüge zum Erhalt des römischen Machtanspruches insbesondere in Britannien gegen barbarische Widerständler unternehmen.
The governors of Roman Syria from Augustus to Septimius Severus von Edward Dabrowa (Gebundene Ausgabe)
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 A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Julia Mammaea had eclectic tendencies, and by her invitation the great Origen came to Antioch (probably, however, after the death of Elagabalus), and was received with many marks of honour.
His jealousy and suspicion led him to imprison Alexander Severus, whose virtue attracted the admiration both of soldiers and people, and whom, at his mother's advice, he had adopted and proclaimed as Caesar soon after arriving in Rome.
The two sisters, each with her son, appeared at the head of their supporters, and the followers of Severus were victorious.
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 Alexander Severus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Harris, almost but not quite disguised in a massive white beard, is the jolly headmaster, Alan Rickman the sneering Professor Severus Snape, Ian Hart a stuttering Professor Quirrell and Maggie Smith tootling around merrily as the stern but friendly Professor...
Stadtrömische Kapitelle aus der Zeit von Domitian bis Alexander Severus: Zur Arbeitsweise und Organisation stadtrömische...
A letter of Severus Alexander (The Journal of Egyptian archaeology.
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 Severus Alexander - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
Septimius Severus - Alexander Severus von Elke W Merten (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Kameen von Augustus bis Alexander Severus von Wolf R Megow (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Die Daten der Scriptores historiae Augustae von Severus Alexander bis Carus.
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 World History 200 AD- 300 AD
Severus first challenged Didius Julianus who was the highest bidder to become emperor at a auction held by the Praetorian Guard.
Severus went on to defeat Septimius Albinus and Pescennius Niger, each head of his own legion and each claiming the right to be Emperor.
Caracalla, the son of Septimus Severus who succeeded him after killing his brother, issued the Constitio Antoniniana.
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