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Didius Julianus

133–193

Didius Julianus was Roman emperor for a brief period in AD 193 after purchasing the imperial title from the Praetorian Guard. His short reign exposed the instability of imperial succession and ended when Septimius Severus advanced on Rome.

In Anthony Riches’s Storm of War, Pertinax has been murdered, Didius Julianus has bought the throne, and rival commanders are claiming the purple.

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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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