War with Pescennius Niger
July 26, 2007
While Septimius Severus was settling affairs in Rome after his successful coup of Didius Julianus’ government (AD 193), the governor of Syria was still preparing his own bid for Roman supremacy. The source information on Gaius Pescennius Niger is relatively obscure, be he seems to have been an Italian of equestrian heritage and was born in approximately AD 135. After serving with some military acclaim in Dacia, he seems to have been made a suffex consul (late 180’s AD) and had been appointed to govern Syria as a trusted lieutenant of Commodus in AD 191...
War with Pescennius Niger