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Pescennius Niger

135–194

Pescennius Niger was a Roman governor and imperial claimant during the civil wars after the death of Pertinax. He was defeated by Septimius Severus, whose victory over rival claimants established a new dynasty.

In Anthony Riches’s Storm of War, their new allegiance takes them towards the eastern armies of Pescennius Niger. In Anthony Riches’s Clash of Legions, the eastern provinces during Severus’s war against Pescennius Niger. Other novels featuring Pescennius Niger include Anthony Riches’s Field of Blood.

Series

Series featuring Pescennius Niger (2 series)

Empire in Order

by Anthony Riches 16 books 4.5

The Empire series follows Marcus Valerius Aquila, a Roman aristocrat forced into hiding after his family is destroyed under Commodus. Serving under an assumed name with the Tungrian auxiliaries, he moves from Hadrian’s Wall and the Rhine to Rome, Egypt and the eastern civil wars that follow the…

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Praetorian in Order

by Simon Turney 8 books 4.5

The Praetorian series centres on Gnaeus Marcius Rustius Rufinus, a legionary drawn into the Praetorian Guard and the lethal politics of Commodus’s court. Investigations, covert missions and frontier commands expose him to conspiracies involving imperial relatives, prefects, freedmen, senators and rival claimants to the throne. As Commodus’s reign…

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