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The Last Norths

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The rise to power of the Syrian branch of the Severan dynasty was an attempt by the Roman army to recapture the "best" times of Septimius Severus and Caracalla, and by the aristocracy to recapture the "best" times of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. This attempt failed, both due to the incompetence of the last Severan emperors themselves and due to the objective reasons for the disruption of state stability. The imbalance between the disproportionate increase in the role of the army and the decline in the quality of governance, coupled with growing economic problems and the spiritual crisis of the imperial population, can be called the "Hidden Crisis" (or the initial stage of the "Crisis of the Third Century"). Its beginning can be dated to the reign of Septimius Severus; the peak of the "Hidden Crisis" occurred during the reign of Caracalla and Heliogabalus; and under Alexander, the situation matured into an open phase, culminating in the assassination of the princeps. The assassination of the last Severan emperor marked the turning point between the empire's latent and open crisis. It is the final stage of the empire's "Hidden Crisis" that is examined in this work in the form of political biographies and psychological portraits of Heliogabalus and Alexander Severus.
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