Dr. Alex Imrie

These two tearaways not really caring whose way they get in or what they damage or destroy as long as they get to have their little competition with one another. This is becoming a much more public embarrassment for Severus that he has to do something about.

These two tearaways not really caring whose way they get in or what they damage or destroy as long as they get to have their little competition with one another. This is becoming a much more public embarrassment for Severus that he has to do something about.

These two tearaways not really caring whose way they get in or what they damage or destroy as long as they get to have their little competition with one another. This is becoming a much more public embarrassment for Severus that he has to do something about.

At least partially, it's this animosity between his two sons that seems to prompt his decision to take the entire imperial court, along with a huge army, over to Northern Britain when the governor writes to Severus and claims that there's some trouble on the frontier. He takes an expeditionary force of about 50,000 men. This is a ridiculously large force.

At least partially, it's this animosity between his two sons that seems to prompt his decision to take the entire imperial court, along with a huge army, over to Northern Britain when the governor writes to Severus and claims that there's some trouble on the frontier. He takes an expeditionary force of about 50,000 men. This is a ridiculously large force.

At least partially, it's this animosity between his two sons that seems to prompt his decision to take the entire imperial court, along with a huge army, over to Northern Britain when the governor writes to Severus and claims that there's some trouble on the frontier. He takes an expeditionary force of about 50,000 men. This is a ridiculously large force.

for what is ultimately, sorry Britain, a relatively insignificant frontier at this point. And it seems to be partly to remove his sons from the corrupting influence of Rome and to expose them to austerity and military life so that they might start to behave like emperors.

for what is ultimately, sorry Britain, a relatively insignificant frontier at this point. And it seems to be partly to remove his sons from the corrupting influence of Rome and to expose them to austerity and military life so that they might start to behave like emperors.

for what is ultimately, sorry Britain, a relatively insignificant frontier at this point. And it seems to be partly to remove his sons from the corrupting influence of Rome and to expose them to austerity and military life so that they might start to behave like emperors.

Yeah, I mean, I tend to obviously think that the British campaign has a little bit more complexity to it than the likes of Dyer wants to tell us.

Yeah, I mean, I tend to obviously think that the British campaign has a little bit more complexity to it than the likes of Dyer wants to tell us.

Yeah, I mean, I tend to obviously think that the British campaign has a little bit more complexity to it than the likes of Dyer wants to tell us.

But I am tickled by the fact that this old soldier who has spent a lot of his reign at war in a kind of military context thinks that that might be the answer, to get his boys out of the city, away from the soft life and make them live in a tent for a few years and come to their senses.

But I am tickled by the fact that this old soldier who has spent a lot of his reign at war in a kind of military context thinks that that might be the answer, to get his boys out of the city, away from the soft life and make them live in a tent for a few years and come to their senses.

But I am tickled by the fact that this old soldier who has spent a lot of his reign at war in a kind of military context thinks that that might be the answer, to get his boys out of the city, away from the soft life and make them live in a tent for a few years and come to their senses.

So if Severus's intention was to get the boys to see sense and work together, he doesn't seem to go about it in a tremendously effective manner. When they're in Britain from 208 until just after Severus's death in 211, the pair of them seem to have completely different remits. So Caracalla, as a co-emperor from the outset, is given command at least of part of the military.

So if Severus's intention was to get the boys to see sense and work together, he doesn't seem to go about it in a tremendously effective manner. When they're in Britain from 208 until just after Severus's death in 211, the pair of them seem to have completely different remits. So Caracalla, as a co-emperor from the outset, is given command at least of part of the military.

So if Severus's intention was to get the boys to see sense and work together, he doesn't seem to go about it in a tremendously effective manner. When they're in Britain from 208 until just after Severus's death in 211, the pair of them seem to have completely different remits. So Caracalla, as a co-emperor from the outset, is given command at least of part of the military.

He seems to go on campaign with his father in the year 208-209. And in 210, when Severus, it seems, is becoming increasingly ill and physically unable to lead a force himself, Caracalla seems to be handed the mantle of command and takes an expeditionary force into what is now modern-day Scotland. So he's very much the military one of the pair.

He seems to go on campaign with his father in the year 208-209. And in 210, when Severus, it seems, is becoming increasingly ill and physically unable to lead a force himself, Caracalla seems to be handed the mantle of command and takes an expeditionary force into what is now modern-day Scotland. So he's very much the military one of the pair.