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Clodius Albinus

150–197

Clodius Albinus was a Roman governor and imperial claimant during the civil wars that followed the death of Commodus. He was defeated by Septimius Severus at Lugdunum in AD 197, after which Severus became sole ruler of the empire.

Anthony Riches’s Storm of War places Clodius Albinus within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, empire, conquest and resistance, and military command and battlefield decision-making.

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Series featuring Clodius Albinus (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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