2025年1月30日 · Elagabalus was from Syria, and brought to Rome a sacred stone for which he built a temple. After his assassination by the Praetorian Guard he was chucked into the Tiber. I'm wondering what became of the stone. Supposedly it made its way back to Syria. I'm surprised it didn't join Elagabalus in the river. If it's extant I can't find it.

2020年10月25日 · Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus (posthumously known by the name of the god Elagabalus) was a contentious figure at the time for reasons including divergence from the religious and sexual norms of Roman society, and the nature of the historical record means that contentiousness will never stop.

2019年7月18日 · Elagabalus died at eighteen, after ruling for only four years. After her death, the Roman Senate had her erased from the history of Rome, which is a part of why information about her is so scarce and often so unreliable. What we know is that Elagabalus wasn’t a good leader, and probably not that great of a person either.

2024年1月3日 · That said, unless we can't reliably prove that Elagabalus wanted or didn't want to be a woman, I'll probably go with the gender attributed traditionally by historians for the list, but I also add that we, as contemporary people, can't really debate properly on the gender identity of someone lived around eighteen hundred years ago when all that ...

2019年7月19日 · The praetorian guard in 218, when Elagabalus seized power in the east, was probably not filled with many Syrians, but it fought for Macrinus against the legions loyal to Elagabalus and lost. It is possible that Elagabalus later filled the praetorian ranks with soldiers more likely to be loyal, since this had also been the practice of Vespasian ...

Elagabalus apparantly went both ways, he also lavished favors on courtiers popularly assumed to have been his homosexual lovers. Meanwhile, his grandmother Julia Maesa and his mother Julia Soaemias had been proclaimed Augusta. These two women ran the empire while Elagabalus diddled with his religion and his hobbies.

2010年11月17日 · While there is no smoke without fire, we should consider much of the contempory historians violent denunciation as significant to their disgust of a young oriental who was elevating his god above all others. To the stoics, neo-Platonists and neo-Pythagoreans who sought to establish a universal...

2020年10月25日 · I was looking through the history of the Byzantine empire and apparently Elagabalus was the first Empress, not Irene of Athens...

2018年6月22日 · Aquilia Severa was empress of Rome briefly through her marriage to Elagabalus, the eccentric and decadent boy emperor of Rome. She was also, whatsoever, a vestal virgin. The infamous punishment for vestals who broke their 30-years long vow of chastity was descending into the Campus Sceleratus...

2019年7月20日 · The claim that Elagabalus was influenced by his lovers may indeed be slander. We can certainly expect things to have been invented and exaggerated. But invective often builds from a basis in reality, and certainly Elagabalus and Soaemias were sufficiently unpopular for the praetorians and their close relatives (including Elagabalus' grandmother ...