22 Septimius Severus

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

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🗓️ 8 October 2016

⏱️ 92 minutes

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In the year that held 5 possible emperors, only one would come out on top! Who would was anyone's guess... Well, sort of... No one expected Julianus to last. And Pertinax obviously was upsetting too many Praetorians. Oh, and Albinus clearly was not in a strong enough position without the backing of the German legions. And as for Niger, well he just needed to get a bloody move on! But still, the empire was up for grabs and one man saw a way to take it, re-mould it and hand it to the next generation with pride...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Septim Empress Italus Rankium. I am Jamie. And I'm Rob, and this is episode
0:29.3	22, Septimius Severus. Peptemius, yeah. Yeah. The third and last of the year of the five Empress.
0:39.7	Yeah.
0:40.4	Yeah.
0:40.9	Should we find out more about why that's?
0:42.8	Yes, that's what we're going to do.
0:44.3	Yeah, we've got quite a bit covered today.
0:46.5	It's like the opposite of Giulianus.
0:49.0	There was practically nothing on him.
0:51.3	It's quite a bit on Severus.
0:52.3	Oh, good.
0:52.8	Let's jump right into it. Okay. It was born on the 11th of April. No, he wasn't, in 1-4-5. That's near my birthday. Is it? What's your birthday? 18th of April. I know that, obviously. Yeah, yeah. Do you know where my birthday is? Yeah, it's Valentine's Day. Oh, that it, that's cheating. That is totally cheating. I've got a day. Which is February the 15th. Everyone knows. Yeah, right. Yeah, he was born in Leptis Magna. Ooh. He seemed almost disappointed. A little bit, yeah. Why, what's wrong with that? I don't know where it is. Oh, right. Well, it's in modern day Libya. Okay. So he's not kind of Roman-born, well, definitely not Roman-born. No, he is our first African-born emperor. Okay. Yes. Although very much like Trajan and Hadrian being Spanish, and still very Romanized and Roman family from the province of Africa.
1:46.1	Okay.
1:46.6	Yeah, he would have been seen as Roman.
1:48.5	It's not this idea that he's different.
1:50.8	It just happens to be born in a province.
1:53.1	Yeah.
1:53.9	Right, his family were equestrian.
1:55.9	They were very wealthy and distinguished.
1:58.0	Semra's father was a powerful man within his provincial home, but he had no office.
2:02.6	Not as in he held no office.
2:04.6	I was going to be.
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