Macrinus is confirmed in his new role …
Years: 217 - 217
Macrinus is confirmed in his new role by the Senate despite his equestrian background.
According to S.N.
Miller, this may have been due to both his background as an accomplished jurist and his deferential treatment of the senatorial class.
(Miller, S.N., "The Army and the Imperial House," The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XII: The Imperial Crisis and Recovery (A.D. 193–324), S.A. Cook et al.
eds, Cambridge University Press, 1965, pp 50–2.)
He finds it necessary, however, to replace several provincial governors with men of his own choosing.
Caracalla's mother Julia Domna is initially left in peace, but when she starts to conspire with the military he orders her to leave Antioch.
Being at this time in an advanced stage of breast cancer (Cassius Dio) she chooses instead to starve herself to death.
In urgent matters of foreign policy, Macrinus displays a tendency towards conciliation and a reluctance to engage in military conflict.
He averts trouble in the province of Dacia by returning hostages that had been held by Caracalla, and he ends troubles in Armenia by granting that country's throne to Tiridates, whose father had also been imprisoned under Caracalla.
Less easily managed is the problem of Mesopotamia, which has been invaded by the Parthians in the wake of Caracalla's demise.
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Years: 217 - 217
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- Parthian Empire
- Osroene, Kingdom of
- Syria Palæstina, Roman province of (Judea, Samaria, and Idumea)
- Roman Empire (Rome): Severan dynasty
- Armenia, Kingdom of
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