Quick Facts
| Author | Simon Elliott |
| Narrator | John Sackville |
| Runtime | 10h38m |
| Published | September 11, 2025 |
| Rating | 4.0 / 5 (20 ratings) |
| Categories | Biographies & Memoirs, Historical, History, Ancient, Rome |
| Format | Audiobook (Digital) |
| Platform | Audible |
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Septimius Severus was Rome's black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211.
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