Septimius Severinus - One of the worst Roman
emperors of all time
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Why do I say this? Well, let me tell you something Ernie!!!
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He succeeded a guy called Commodus
- who liked to
to dress like the god Hercules, wearing
lion skins and carrying a club.
what can one say??
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He paid buggar
all attention to civil affairs.
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His wife Domna of Berytus was far more talented than
he was,
but he hogged all the glory. She developed
FAR MORE culture than he did.
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He
was a rotten parent - presiding over a VERY dysfunctional family.
..Publius Septimius
Geta was the younger son of the emperor Septimius Severus.
Geta's rivalry with his older brother, Caracalla,
culminated in Geta's murder
less than a year after Severus' death
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He quickly transformed the authority of the
state
into a military
dictatorship and bumped off the Senate
He went around slaughtering martyrs -
Alban
is the first recorded Christian martyr. The traditional date of his death
is 304,
during the persecution under the Emperor Diocletian;
but many scholars now
date it as around 209, during the persecution
under the Emperor Septimius Severus.
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After the end of the Severan dynasty in 235,
fifty years of anarchy
under twenty different emperors followed
until Diocletian restored order in 284.
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Typical lack of delegation of duties, leaving the Empire vulnerable
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Human Resource Managers Beware!!
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