{"id":8421,"date":"2018-03-08T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:02:52","slug":"alumnus-simon-elliott-publishes-third-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/03\/08\/alumnus-simon-elliott-publishes-third-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Simon Elliott publishes third book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alumnus Dr Simon Elliott, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/postgraduate\/research-classical-archaeological-studies.html\">completed his PhD<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>,\u00a0has just published his third book entitled <em>Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots\u00a0<\/em>(Greenhill Books, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Septimius Severus was the first of the great reforming emperors of the Roman military, and his reforms are explained in the context of how he concentrated power around the imperial throne. Since 1975, much new archaeological evidence has come to light to illuminate the immense undertaking of Severus\u2019 campaigns in Scotland, allowing for the first time the true story of this savage invasion to be told. In the early 3rd century, Severus, the ageing Roman emperor, launched an immense \u2018shock and awe\u2019 assault on Scotland that was so savage it resulted in eighty years of peace at Rome\u2019s most troublesome border.<\/p>\n<p>The book shows how his force of 50,000 troops supported by the fleet, hacked their way through the Maeatae around the former Antonine Wall and then pressed on into Caledonian territory up to the Moray Firth. There is also an in-depth look at the political, economic and social developments that occurred in the Province.<\/p>\n<p>The book is aimed at all who have an interest in both military and Roman history. It will particularly appeal to those who are keen to learn more about the narrative of Rome\u2019s military presence in Britain, and especially the great campaigns of which Severus\u2019 assault on Scotland is the best example.<\/p>\n<p>Simon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/news\/index.html?view=7679\">previously published\u00a0<em>Empire State: How the Roman Military Built an Empire<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 2017 and won <em>Military History Magazine<\/em>\u2019s Book of the Year Award for <em>Sea Eagles of the Empire<\/em>, written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/news\/index.html?view=6487\">in 2016 while undertaking his PhD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simon will also be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/news\/index.html?view=6487\">coming to Kent next week<\/a> to present on his experience of writing historical books, on Thursday 15 March, as part of the Humanities for Hire festival. For details of this event, please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=29946\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=29946<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the publisher\u2019s page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pen-and-sword.co.uk\/Septimius-Severus-in-Scotland-Hardback\/p\/14535\">www.pen-and-sword.co.uk\/Septimius-Severus-in-Scotland-Hardback\/p\/14535<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumnus Dr Simon Elliott, who\u00a0completed his PhD\u00a0in the\u00a0Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies,\u00a0has just published his third book entitled Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/03\/08\/alumnus-simon-elliott-publishes-third-book\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8436,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/8436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}