Empire for Sale - The Pax Romana Podcast 058

After the assassination of Commodus, Pertinax, an experienced governor and military officer, steped up to take the purple. He was a fiscal conservative and a disciplinarian. But the Roman Empire had fundamentally changed, and his own praetorian guard soon removed him from office.
he empire bizarrely veered towards an auction-like scenario, where two men vie for power through financial promises to the praetorians.