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and preparing them for the world stage

This is the story of one of the great figures of British myth and legend - a story ready to be re-imagined for our times

the chapters within the book have been re-arranged and grouped into three themed sections Part One: The Horse

was Commissioning Editor for Drama series at Channel 4

refugees and aristocrats all looking for a way to improve their lives

The African Emperor Fiction in translation and preparing them for theSeptimius Severus was Rome's Black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna, AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211. A giant of an emperor, whose career can be counted in superlatives, Severus was in power at the height of Rome's might. He led the largest army to ever campaign in Britain, comprising 50,000 men, part of a Roman military establishment which peaked at 33