(by © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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/ˌɛləˈɡæbələs/
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*PRONUNCIATION* —>
“el ah GAB ah lis”
(“gab” as in “the gift of gab”)
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*also known as ‘heliogabalus’*
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‘greek’ —>
Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνίνος Αὔγουστος
‘latin’ —>
*marcus aurelius antoninus augustus*
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(‘203’ – ‘11 march 222’)
*born in roman province of ‘syria’*
*died @ ‘age 19’*
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*FATHER* —>
“SEXTUS VARIUS MARCELLUS”
(165 – 215)
(‘roman aristocrat’ in province of ‘syria’)
(his first son’s name / fate is unknown)
(his second son ‘elagabalus’ was born in ‘203’)
(when he was ~38 years old)
(died @ ‘age 50’)
(when ‘elagabalus was ‘12 years old’)
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*MOTHER* —>
“JULIA SOAEMIAS BASSIANA”
(180 – 222)
(syrian noblewoman)
(‘elagabalus’ was born when she was ‘23 years old’)
(15 years younger than her husband)
*died @ ‘age 42’*
(she was killed by the ‘praetorian guard’ while trying to protect her son)
“she laid down her arms and i was drenched to the bone…”
(she was subsequently declared a ‘public enemy’ and her name was stripped from all ‘roman records’)
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*(SUPPOSED?) SPOUSES* —>
“JULIA CORNELIA PAULA”
(roman nobleman)
“JULIA AQUILIA SEVERA”
😱😱😱‘a vestal virgin’😱😱😱
“naughty boy….”
“ANNIA AURELIA FAUSTINA”
(201 – 222)
(2 years older than ‘elagabalus’)
(died @ ‘age 21’)
“anatolian roman noblewoman”
(from greek city of ‘smyrna’ (???))
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*CHILDREN* —>
“SEVERUS ALEXANDER”
(HIS COUSIN)
(‘208’ – ‘235’)
(THEY WERE ACTUALLY COUSINS)
(UNTIL ‘SEVERUS’ BECAME HIS “ADOPTIVE SON”)
(EVEN THOUGH ‘ELAGABALUS’ WAS ONLY 5 YEARS OLDER THAN HIM)
(MUCH LIKE ‘CAESAR” + “AUGUSTUS”)
(and he ended up killing ‘elagabalus’ when he was ‘14 years old’)
(and then he became rome’s ‘youngest emperor’ to date)
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*PROFILE* —>
“SEVERAN DYNASTY”
(the ‘cousin’ of former roman emperor ‘caracalla’)
“CARACALLA”
(188 – 217)
(reigned from 198 – 217)
(~19 YEARS)
(BEFORE BEING KILLED BY HIS UNDERLING ‘MACRINUS’)
(‘CARACALLA’ WAS ‘29 YEARS OLD’)
(‘MACRINUS’ WAS ‘~52 YEARS OLD’)
(‘ELAGABALUS’ WAS ‘~14 YEARS OLD)
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*roman emperor from ‘218’ – ‘222’*
*became emperor @ ‘age 15’*
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(a member of the ‘severan dynasty’, he was ‘syrian’, the 2nd son of ‘julia soaemias’ + ‘sextus varius marcellus’)
(in his early youth. he served as a priest of the god ‘elagabal’ in the hometown of his mother’s family ‘emesa’)
(as a ‘private citizen’, he was probably named ‘sextus varius avitus bassianus’)
(upon becoming ‘emperor’, he took the name ‘marcus aurelius antoninus augustus’)
(he was called ‘elagabalus’ only after his death)
*why?*
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(in ‘217’, the emperor ‘caracalla’ was assassinated + replaced by his ‘praetorian prefect’ marcus opellius macrinus)
(caracalla’s maternal aunt ‘julia maesa’, successfully instigated a revolt among the ‘legio III gallica’ to have her eldest grandson (and caracalla’s cousin) ‘elagabalus’ declared ‘emperor’ in his place)
*you go girl!*
(‘macrinus’ was defeated on ‘8 june 218’ at the ‘battle of antioch’)
(‘elagabalus (barely 14 years old) became ‘emperor’, initiating a reign remembered mainly for ‘sex scandals’ + ‘religious controversy’)
(later historians suggest ‘elagabalus’ showed a disregard for ‘roman religious traditions’ + ‘sexual taboos’)
(he replaced the traditional head of the ‘roman pantheon’ (‘jupiter’) with the ‘deity’ of whom he was ‘high priest’ (‘elagabalus’))
(he forced leading members of rome’s government to participate in ‘religious rites’ celebrating this ‘deity’, over which he personally presided)
(‘elagabalus’ was supposedly “married” as many as 5 times, lavished favors on ‘male courtiers’ popularly thought to have been his ‘lovers’, and was reported to have ‘prostituted himself’ (🙊) in the ‘imperial palace’)
(his behavior estranged the ‘praetorian guard’, the ‘senate’, and the ‘common people’ alike)
(amidst growing opposition, ‘elagabalus’ (just 18 years old) was assassinated and replaced by his cousin ‘severus alexander’ on ’11 march 222’, in a plot formulated by his grandmother (‘julia maesa’) and carried out by disaffected members of the ‘praetorian guard’)
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(‘elagabalus’ developed a reputation among his contemporaries for…)
‘extreme eccentricity’
‘decadence’
‘zealotry’
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(this tradition has persisted, and in writers of the ‘early modern age’ he suffers one of the worst reputations among ‘roman emperors’)
(‘edward gibbon’, for example, wrote that elagabalus “abandoned himself to the ‘grossest pleasures’ + ‘ungoverned fury’”)
(according to ‘barthold georg niebuhr’, “the name ‘elagabalus’ is branded in history above all others” because of his “unspeakably disgusting life”)
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<— *PREDECESSOR*
“MACRINUS”
(165 – 218)
(became emperor at ‘age 52’)
(reigned from 217 – 218)
(killed ‘emperor caracalla’ and became emperor)
(while he was a soldier under him no less)
(he was ‘co-emperor’ with his son ‘diadumenian’)
“diadumenian”
(208 – 218)
(died @ ~’age 10 after his father (and ‘co-emperor’) was killed)
(‘macrinus died @ ‘age 53’)
(his head was subsequently sent to ‘elagabalus’)
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*SUCCESSOR* —>
“SEVERUS ALEXANDER”
(208 – 235)
(his cousin + ‘adopted son’)
(reigned from ‘222’ – ‘235’)
(‘severus conspired with their ‘grandmother’ to murder him + become ’emperor’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥