His death Mark Aurelius At the beginning of 180 AD He canceled his plans for a large -scale campaign north of the Danube and east of the Rhine, for the definitive fight against barbaric tribes that invaded regular intervals in Roman territories. His successor and son, Commodos, soon ended war operations and returned to Rome. Unlike his philosopher and capable military leader father, Komodos was completely sluggish and, according to sources, surrendered to adolescence. In the course of his hegemony, he was a major compounding himself to Hercules, while showing more interest in spectacles in the amphitheater than in the governance of the vast empire.
In 192, Comodos murdered after conspiracy who were extinguished by people in his close environment, who considered that the ruler had escaped any control. He had long been in conflict with the Senate, who still had power in the Roman state at that time. In the imperial post then the Peritinax. Pertinaka’s ancestry was silly and he himself had risen socially through the army. Having gained the confidence of the Command, in 192 Pertinax was appointed Rome’s governor, an office that was usually taken by a senior senator, with the responsibility of maintaining public order in the city. Pertinax, however, seems to be He participated in the conspiracy against the Communisthaving bribed the Praetorian guards in order to support his claims to declare the emperor himself.
Soon, a stance against him and at the end of March 193 AD. Pertinax was murdered.
Pertinax was regarded by the Senate as an example emperor. Immediately put into application a austerity and state -of -state wasting policy. Soon, however, a stance against him appeared and at the end of March 193 AD. The emperor was assassinated. After the assassination, the emperor of Peritinakas self -proclaimed himself, unhappy with the Praetorian Guard, who in turn proclaimed an elderly senator, Marco Dope Julian. Developments that took place in Rome paved the way for the start of a civil war in the Roman state, in which the initiative was taken by the troops in the provinces.
Next to Rome was the army being under the orders of Lefkio Septimius Severus In Ano Pannonia. As soon as the murder of Pertinakas became known, Severus was proclaimed emperor on April 9, 193 AD. From his troops, which consisted of three legions. After first securing the support of the troops in the Danube and the Rhine and took on his part to British Commander Diand Clood Alvino, Severus moved for Rome.
In a difficult position, the Praetorians immediately accepted Severus’ orders to arrest the murderers of Peritinaka. They even arrested Dop Julian, whom they then executed. When he entered the capital, Severus fired the Praetorian Guard and created newsconsisting of more men, who came from his victorious troops. Severus then dealt with the treatment of Syrian commander Gaios Peskinnos Niger, who, after he had self -proclaimed emperor, passed to Asia Minor claiming monarchy. In the spring of 194 AD Severus managed to defeat Niger’s troops, who was killed during his flight.
Column: Myrto Katsigera, Vassilis Minakakis, Antigoni-Despina Poumenidou, Athanasios Syroplakis
