Nomen Omen ( need some things read inside)
First Years of Alexander Severus
After several year of caos the Roman Empire finally had a competent Emperor in charge. But in the beggining Severus didn't rule alone. He had a great collection of advisors, chief among them Cassius Dio, personal friend of the Emperor and author of a great history of the reign of Alexander. Other influencial advisor was Ulpian who would ultimatelly die at the hands the praetorian guard during the several small revolts in the beggining of the new emperor reign.
Despite the several revolts in the army, the people generally liked Severus and the only group who didn't liked him was the soldiers he had reduced the salaries.
But great feats awaited Severus.
Sassanid raids and Severus counter-offensive
After the fall of the Pathian Empire, the new Sassanid Emperor Artaxerxes aspired to conquer all the Roman East and started raiding the roman territory on the west side of the euphrates. Severus didn't attack imediatelly and instead send diplomats explaining Artaxerxes that he was attacking roman territory and thus risking war. The diplomat also explained that the Emperor would forget all this if the sassanid returned back to the east side of the Euphrates because Artaxerxes was a new emperor and perhaps didn't know that he couldn't raid roman territory.
Artaxerxes replied that he knew what he was doing and that he wanted to conquer the east.
Alexander then set to attack the Sassanids with a three front attack. One would attack through Armenia and would attack from the north, another front would attack from the south and the third and largest front led by the emperor would attack from the center.
Alexander set with some Rhine legions from Rome and reached the Euphrate in the summer of 231 and the planned attack started imediatelly. The first two fronts did their mission well and some time after the great persian army had to be broken in three one to defend the north another the south and other to defend the border in the euphrates. But Alexander quickly attacked and in a short time he had faced and destroy the persian center army and killed their King Artaxerxes. after great triumph the Emperor let is soldiers raid some towns and then advanced to the capital of ctesiphon, sacking it and almost destroy it. But it wasn't all roses. The northern roman army had after an hard passing of the caucasus forced to retreat after a minor defeat against the Persian Northern army led by Shapur son of Artaxerxes but he wasn't a great general and the motivated and reinforced central roman army, who had been reinforced by the southern army defeated and captured Shapur.
The soldiers now with spoils and treasures where happy and celebrated their new favourite Alexander who gained the title of Persicus Maximus. Shapur, know humbled brokered an humiliating deal with Alexander that ceded all sassanid territory west of the tigris to Rome, formal control over Armenia, and an immense tribute in money.
Apart from this great defeat Shapur had to face revolts all over his empire.
The now know as Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Armeniacus Mesapotamicus Persicus Maximus had started a great reign but some dark clouds were aprouching
this text was retired from the book The Reign of The Second Alexander: Nomen Omen by a several historians, citing as sources Cassius Dio
I need a map of the Roman Sassanid Border before and after the war.
Sorry for the errors that you might find and feel free to coment
