102- The Common Enemy of Mankind
The History of Rome
Mike Duncan
4.8 • 13.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2010
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Septimius Severus died in 211 while campaigning in Britain. He left the Empire to his sons, but their mutual hatred for one another meant that one of them was going to wind up dead.
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| 1:01.6 | Hello and welcome to the history of Rome. Episode 102, the common enemy of mankind. |
| 1:11.6 | Last week, we left off with the Imperial family packing for their camping |
| 1:16.5 | trip to Britain. You'll recall that in 208, Septimius Severus had seized on a |
| 1:21.6 | relatively minor military uprising as an excuse to get himself and his sons |
| 1:26.4 | out of Rome for a bit. Getting away from the capital would, for Severus, mean |
| 1:32.1 | getting away from the banality and pettiness of government. While for his sons, |
| 1:36.3 | it would mean getting away from the temptations that they had been all too |
| 1:40.4 | recklessly indulging in. They were the co-heirs to the throne and yet so far at |
| 1:46.1 | 1920, they knew far more about chariot racing and what the best kind of |
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