septimius

My two sons are named Carlo Gibson Septimius and Leo Balthazar Septimius.

Lucius Septimius Severus - family name means 7th Publius Helvius Pertinax - family name means honey-yellow.

Even Septimius Severus, which was born in Libya, had latin roman ancestry (albeit mixed with Phoenician).

The Four African Emperors were Septimius Severus, Clodius Albinus, Marcus Macrinus and Aemilianus.

If going for visual realism, then obviously a black man would not look the part, since all roman emperors were caucasian (except possibly Septimius Severus).

We have pretty good clarity that Septimius Severus wasn't racially African.

In 202 AD, Septimius Severus captured the capital city of Garama.

They looked at them in respect, when Septimius Severus became emperor the Egyptians were already older to the Romans than Romans are to us today.

Example 1: Septimius Severus raised the legionary's yearly pay from 300 to 400 denarii while decreasing the amount of silver in a denarius by a half.

I'm Italian, I ideally descend from the African born emperor Septimius Severus, who was born in Leptis Magna the modern Al-Khums in Lybia.

And Septimius Severus / Vegetius were post-Augustus Imperial Rome.

> We have pretty good clarity that Septimius Severus wasn't racially African.

His father (Septimius Severus, the first "African emperor") was of Punic and Italic origins.

That "evidence" consist of one fleeting mention in a biography about Septimius Severus.

Here's a simple manual for running a country that has been working like a charm ever since the emperor Septimius Severus: "Enrich the soldiers and damn the rest".

Praetorian Guardsmen probably had a higher minimum height than rank and file legionaries until the Septimius Severus started recruiting the latter into the imperial guard at the end of the second century.17" Page 9 of that same book.

Septimius Severus was half Roman and half Punic, so not Berber.

Also the oldest medieval skeleton recovered in the south of france is of berber stock, there was even a Roman emperor of North African origin (Septimius Severus).

Septimius Severus, commander of the legions in Pannonia and the nearest of the generals to Rome, marched on the capital, gathering support along the way and routing cohorts of the Praetorian Guard Julianus sent to meet him.