Another filthy autocrat who denigrated the Senate, trampled Rome's republican legacy, and epitomized why most of the Severan dynasty was trash. Only the last one, Alexander Severus, was a decent human being.

>>18654216
>unironic Roman republican
Cringe

He should've embraced the Geticus Maximus title after he defeated* the Goths

>>18654221
Pertinax should have been emperor after Commodus' death. He would have done the right thing. Too bad the soldiery were too simplistic and smoothbrained to see his wisdom.

>>18654229
Nah pertinax might have had the right ideas but he was too simplistic and smoothbrained to see that he would've needed way more support before he could act on them without pissing off the soldiers esp the praetorian guards

>>18654192
Paved the way for the Christianization of the empire by giving citizenship to conquered subjects (the only group Christianity was popular among)