'Roman Civil War: Compare 69 Ce and 193 Ce\r'

'Civil War: compare 69 CE and 193 CE. Consider the issues of imperial Succession, the roles of the senate, military importance, and the ultimate settlement. How were they the same and different. The Year of the Four Emperors was a stratum in the history of the roman print Empire, AD 69, in which four emperors ruled in a curious succession. These four emperors were Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. The suicide of emperor Nero, in 68, was followed by a brief period of accomplished war, the primary popish civil war since Mark Antonys nett stage in 30 BC.\r\nBetween June of 68 and celestial latitude of 69, Rome witnessed the successive rise and fall of Galba, Otho and Vitellius until the final accession of Vespasian, first ruler of the Flavian Dynasty. This period of civil war has become emblematic of the cyclic governmental disturbances in the history of the Roman Empire. The military and semipolitical anarchy created by this civil war had serious-minded repercussions, su ch as the outbreak of the Batavian rebellion. (The Jewish riot was already ongoing. )Vespasian did not meet any occupy threat to his imperial power after the close of Vitellius.\r\nHe became the founder of the stable Flavian dynasty that succeeded the Julio-Claudians and died of natural causes as emperor in 79. The Year of the Five Emperors refers to the grade 193 AD, in which there were five claimants for the title of Roman Emperor. The five were Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus and Septimius Severus. The year 193 opened with the murder of Commodus on New Years Eve, 31 December 192 and the proclamation of the metropolis Prefect Pertinax as Emperor on New Years Day, 1 January 193. Pertinax was assassinated by the Praetorian Guard on 28 March 193.\r\nLater that day, Didius Julianus outmaneuvered Titus Flavius Sulpicianus (Pertinaxs father-in-law and also the newfangled City Prefect) for the title of Emperor. Flavius Sulpicianus offered to pay each sol dier 20,000 sestertii to buy their loyalty (eight times their annual fee; also the same amount offered by Marcus Aurelius to in force(p) their favours in 161). Didius Julianus however offered 25,000 to each soldier to derive the auction and was proclaimed Emperor by the Roman Senate on 28 March. However, three other conspicuous Romans challenged for the throne: Pescennius Niger in Syria, Clodius Albinus in Britain, and Septimius Severus in Pannonia.\r\nSeptimius Severus marched on Rome to oust Didius Julianus and had him decapitated on 1 June 193, then dismissed the Praetorian Guard and execute the soldiers who had killed Pertinax. Consolidating his power, Septimius Severus battled Pescennius Niger at Cyzicus and Nicea in 193 and then decisively defeated him at Issus in 194. Clodius Albinus initially back up Septimius Severus believing that he would succeed him. When he clear that Severus had other intentions, Albinus had himself declared Emperor in 195 except was defeated b y Septimius Severus at the Battle of Lugdunum on 19 February 197.\r\n'