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THE ROMAN EMPIRE FROM SEVERUS

TO CONSTANTINE

The third century AD in the Roman Empire began and ended with Emperors

who are recognised today as being strong and dynamic – Septimius Severus,

Diocletian and Constantine. Yet the intervening years have traditionally

been seen as a period of crisis. Beating off rivals and coping with immediate

emergencies occupied a rapid succession of rulers. The 260s saw the nadir of

imperial fortunes, with every frontier threatened or overrun, the senior

Emperor imprisoned by the Persians, and Gaul and Palmyra breaking away

from central control. It might have been thought that the Empire should

have collapsed – yet it did not.

Pat Southern shows how this was possible by providing a chronological

history of the Empire from the end of the second century to the beginning of

the fourth; the emergence and devastating activities of the Germanic tribes

and the Persian Empire are analysed, and a conclusion details the economic,

military and social aspects of the third century ‘crisis’.

She shows that many of the rulers of the third century – in particular

Gallienus, whose reign has been called the lowest point in imperial history –

have been signiﬁcantly underrated. Far from being responsible for the prob-

lems of the era, it was thanks to their determination to consolidate that the

Empire survived and was able to transform itself into the sacrosanct,

absolutist, dynastic regime of the fourth century.

Lucidly written, fully illustrated and incorporating the latest scholarly

ﬁndings, this work makes a fascinating but little-known period of imperial

history accessible to both students and the general reader.

Pat Southern studied Ancient History and Archaeology at the Universities

of London and Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the author of numerous books

on Roman history, including The Roman Cavalry (with Karen Dixon, Rout-

ledge 1997), The Late Roman Army (with Karen Dixon, Routledge 2000),

Domitian – Tragic Tyrant (Routledge 1997) and Augustus (Routledge 1998,

paperback 2001).

THE ROMAN EMPIRE

FROM SEVERUS TO

CONSTANTINE

Pat Southern

London and New York

First published 2001

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now

known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Southern, Pat

The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine/Pat Southern.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Rome–History–Severus, 193–235. 2. Rome–History–Period of military

anarchy, 235–284. 3. Rome–History–Diocletian, 284–305. 4.

Rome–History–Constantine I, the Great, 306–337.

DG298.S67 2001

937 .06–dc21

2001019483

ISBN 0-203-45159-7 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-45721-8 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0–415–23943–5 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–23944–3 (pbk)

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