title: Septimius Severus et senatores once again. A Debate with Cesare Letta
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metadata.value: Okoń, Danuta
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:22:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:22:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-12
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metadata.value: Okoń D. Septimius Severus et senatores once again. A Debate with Cesare Letta. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2016, issue 4, pp. 174–185.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2016.413
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/5931
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article controverts Cesare Letta’s lecture given on the 19th International Epigraphic Congress
  (Rome 2014) and published later that year in the post-conference proceedings (C. Letta, Settimo
  Severo e il senato // Epigrafia e ordine senatorio, 30 anni dopo, Roma. 2014, pp. 127–141).
  C. Letta claims (and I disagree with him) that the upper limit of senators in the Severan era is
  600. He rejects Historia Augusta with its list of condemned senators mentioned by name at the same
  time including anonymous ones known from other sources (such as Herodian, Cassius Dio, epigraphy)
  thus establishing the number of senators repressed by Septimius Severus at 111.
  On the basis of my research I conclude that the limit of senators amounts to 900–1000 people,
  the list of the repressed (only the ones known by name) amounts to 55 people, that is 5 % of the senate’s
  makeup. I ascertain the aforementioned figures (as regards the scope of repressions) are minimum
  values, however, contrary to C. Letta’s calculations, mine are based on substantive personal data.
  I concur with Cesare Letta that Africans had strong position in senate of the Roman Empire in
  the Antonine as well as in the Severan era. According to my research, they constituted a bit more than
  20 % of all senators in the Severan period. Nevertheless, I uphold my opinion of a significant role of
  Africans being in the very close circles of Septimius Severus — they constituted 40 % of the senators
  there. These values (20 % and 40 %) are very meaningful and they represent the role of Severus’s kin
  in the ruling elite well. Therefore, I can not agree with Cesare Letta that the issue of origo in Septimius
  Severus’s personal policy can be marginalized. Refs 14.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 2. History;Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Septimius Severus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: senate
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: repressions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Septimius Severus et senatores once again. A Debate with Cesare Letta
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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