The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus by Simon Elliott #foliosociety Illustrated by Alice Smith

Illustrated by Alice Smith

a magical train that offers its passengers a sense of purpose

Many months later

Trying to escape a skilled predator who wants him dead

HardbackPublication: 5 Jan 2021

The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus by Simon Elliott #foliosociety Illustrated by Alice SmithSeptimius Severus was Rome's black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna, AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211. A giant of an emperor, whose career can be counted in superlatives, Severus was in power at the height of Rome's might. He led the largest army to ever campaign in Britain, comprising 50,000 men, part of a Roman military establishment which peaked at 33