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Roman History, Volume IX: Books 71-80 by Cassius Dio, Earnest Cary

Roman History, Volume IX: Books 71-80 - Cassius Dio, Earnest Cary

bookshelves: autumn-2014, reference, skim-through, skoolzy-stuff

Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: FutureLearn
Read from September 22 to 23, 2014


In AD 208 the Emperor Septimius Severus led a substantial field army and his warring sons into the north. His operations, which concluded in AD 211, were savagely criticised by Cassius Dio, a contemporary writer (Dio Roman History 77. 11.1-77.15.4)

A skim through to the British bits: https://archive.org/details/diosroman...

Page 383 is the start...

Don't go thinking for one minute that Dio's history is defunct, it helped enormously to pin down the reasons for Timewatch - The Mystery of the Headless Romans



HUZZAH! Caracalla (nickname definition = hoodie *snort*) decided to see off dear papa and was thwarted; get this, ailing Septimus Severus *pantomime boo* let his son, hoodie, off the hook.

You can't make this stuff up - well, that's not true, Tacitus did!