Posted on 03/11/2024 10:05:09 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
March 11, 222 marked the downfall of the Roman emperor Elagabalus (or Heliogabalus, in the Greek rendering).*
Notorious to posterity for lapping the field in outrageous sensuality, he was the 14-year-old cousin of the deposed brute Caracalla and stepped into the purple because his crafty grandma won the civil war that ensued Caracalla’s assassination.
By family heredity he was by that time already the high priest of the Syrian sun-god Elagabalus,** in the city of Emesa (present-day Homs, Syria). History has flattered the youth with the name of his novel god, although in life the former was simply Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. By any name, his eastern affectations would smell as foul to the Romans.,,,,
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The original tranny!
If you were a truly awful Emperor the Romans tried to erase you from history
. This guy was that bad.
My first thought was "a new varmint cartridge?"
Derpitty-derp-derp..
There was an earlier one—Nero had a boyfriend who was subjected to surgical alterations so he would look like a female. Romans joked that it was too bad that Nero’s father had not married a wife like that.
Certainly one of the worst...Nero, I think used to play as a whore, so not original to the Elagobbleup.
But he was so bad even the pervs in Rome couldn’t stand him. Even tho so many try to argue he was not assassinated because of his disgusting perverse nature, it was because of his disgusting perverse nature.
Elagabalus was a sicko. His destruction ended his depravity.
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