04-12-2006, 07:18 AM
Yes. I wonder if his departure was deliberately timed to avoid winter, but I doubt it.
My book ends with Heliogabalus, but in the book "The Roman Emperors" by Michael Grant, it says that Severus Alexander (not to be confused with Septimius Severus I mentioned earlier) invaded during winter.
It was a three-pronged attack : one in Armenia, another in Northern Mesopatamia and another in the Southern part.
Grant says " It seems while the first column was sucessful, and pressed on into Median territoy - though suffering severly from the winter cold on its return journey - the second, under the emperor's personal command, failed to get moving (perhaps because of the torried climate), and the third was annihilated on the Eurphrates. All the same, the Roman province of Mesopatamia was recovered."
I can keep going, but the best time to read about eastern campaigns is, of course, the eventful third century.
My book ends with Heliogabalus, but in the book "The Roman Emperors" by Michael Grant, it says that Severus Alexander (not to be confused with Septimius Severus I mentioned earlier) invaded during winter.
It was a three-pronged attack : one in Armenia, another in Northern Mesopatamia and another in the Southern part.
Grant says " It seems while the first column was sucessful, and pressed on into Median territoy - though suffering severly from the winter cold on its return journey - the second, under the emperor's personal command, failed to get moving (perhaps because of the torried climate), and the third was annihilated on the Eurphrates. All the same, the Roman province of Mesopatamia was recovered."
I can keep going, but the best time to read about eastern campaigns is, of course, the eventful third century.
Jaime
