Table of Contents

List of Maps. List of Illustrations: Acknowledgements for Illustrations. Introduction. 1. Septimus Severus and the Struggle for Power 2. The Praetorians and their Prefects: Plautianus 3. The Gestures of Septimius 4. The Successors 5. The Provinces and Italy: the Constitutio Antoniniana 6. The Army: the Military Monarchy 7. Finance 8. The Syrian Women 9. The Lawyers 10. The Novel: Longus 11. Art and Architecture 12. Religion Epilogue. Appendix: The Literary Sources. List of Emperors. Abbreviations. Notes. Some Books. Index

About the Author

Michael Grant is one of the world's greatest writers on ancient history. He was formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Khartoum and the Queen's University of Belfast. He has published over fifty books.

Reviews

..."is remarkably well illustrated...Appealing to the general reader, it has also much to offer to the serious student of Roman history."
-"The Journal of Indo-European Studies
"Michael Grant, one of our finest and most prolific writers on the ancient world takes on the first non-Italian Dynasty, a nine-emperor rule that extended from 193 to 235 A.D....the book is enlivened by many maps and illustrations."
-Toronto Globe and Mail