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Portrait of Geta

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Description: Roman Sculpture
~After the murder and damnatio memoriae of Commodus in 193, the Praetorian guard selected Publius Helvius Pertinax as the next emperor of Rome. Pertinax was an obvious choice because he had distinguished himself both under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. During Marcus’s principate, he was adlected into the senate and served under the emperor in a military...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.317-353
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00185.008

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