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Elagabalus married and divorced five women, three of whom are known.
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Elagabalus and married
Elagabalus was married as many as five times, lavished favors on male courtiers popularly thought to have been his lovers, employed a prototype of whoopee cushions at dinner parties, and was reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace.
Within a year, he abandoned her and married Annia Aurelia Faustina, a descendant of Marcus Aurelius and the widow of a man recently executed by Elagabalus.
He married Julia Soaemias, and was the supposed father of Varius Avitus Bassianus, the later Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus.
* Aquilia Severa, whom Emperor Elagabalus married amid considerable scandal.
Elagabalus then married Annia Faustina, a more generally acceptable choice.
In July 221, Elagabalus married Annia Aurelia Faustina as his third wife ( her second marriage ).
When she married Elagabalus, it seemed for a time that the Nerva – Antonine dynasty rule had returned to Rome.
Elagabalus and divorced
Within a short time, however, Elagabalus had divorced Faustina and returned to living with Severa, claiming that the original divorce was invalid.
Towards the end of 221, Elagabalus divorced her for unknown reasons.
Elagabalus and five
Book five is about the reign of Elagabalus from 218 through 222, and book six deals with the reign of Severus Alexander from 222 to 235.
Elagabalus and women
Other notable women who exercised power behind the scenes in this period include Julia Maesa, sister of Julia Domna, and Maesa ' a two daughters Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus, and Julia Avita Mamaea, mother of Alexander Severus.
The 4th century Historia Augusta reports emperor Elagabalus to have used a wheelbarrow ( Latin: pabillus from pabo, one-wheeled vehicle ) to transport women in his frivolous games at court.
Elagabalus and three
As a token of respect for Roman religion, however, Elagabalus joined either Astarte, Minerva, Urania, or some combination of the three to Elagabal as wife.
Elagabalus and whom
Elagabalus's family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the sun god Elagabal, of whom Elagabalus was the high priest at Emesa ( modern Homs ) in Syria.
Elagabalus ' family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the sun god El-Gabal, of whom Elagabalus was the high priest at Emesa ( modern Homs ) in Syria.
His wife Nonia Celsa bore him a son, Diadumenianus, whom he made co-Emperor in 218 ; both were executed by partisans of " Elagabalus " ( see below ).
Elagabalus and are
Elagabalus ' sexual orientation and gender identity are the subject of much debate.
* Legions III Gallica and IV Scythica are disbanded by Elagabalus after their leaders, Verus and Gellius Maximus, rebel.
The Romans are recorded — the veracity of the accounts depending on the case — to have dragged the bodies of a number of people to the sewers rather than give them proper burial, among them the emperor Elagabalus and Saint Sebastian: the latter scene is the subject of a well-known artwork by Lodovico Carracci.
Elagabalus and known
Born Varius Avitus Bassianus on May 16, 205, known later as M. Aurelius Antonius, he was appointed at an early age to be priest of the sun God, Elagabalus, represented by a phallus, by which name he is known to historians ( his name is sometimes written " Heliogabalus ").
* Probable birth of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus ( d. 222 )
* The Roman Emperor also known as Elagabalus.
Elagabalus ( also known as Heliogabalus ) banished him from Rome, but on the accession of Alexander ( 222 ) he was reinstated, and finally became the emperor's chief adviser and praefectus praetorio.
The Roses of Heliogabalus is a famous painting of 1888 by the Anglo-Dutch academician Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, at present in private hands, and based on a probably invented episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, ( 204 – 222 ), taken from the Augustan History.
The restoration, however, brought with it a decidedly bizarre character: the first of the restored Severan Emperors, a Syrian historically known as " Elagabalus " ( also seen less correctly as " Heliogabalus ") was already the hereditary high priest of an Oriental sun god, Elagabal.
Elagabalus and .
He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.
He and his cousin were both grandsons of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa, who had arranged for Elagabalus ' acclamation as emperor by the famed Third Gallic Legion.
It was the rumor of Alexander's death that triggered the assassination of Elagabalus and his mother.
His mother Julia Avita Mamaea was the second daughter of Julia Maesa and Syrian noble Julius Avitus and maternal aunt of Emperor Elagabalus.
In the following year, on 11 March, Elagabalus was murdered, and Alexander was proclaimed emperor by the Praetorians and accepted by the Senate.
235 ) (), often seen as just Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222.
Elagabalus ( Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, ca.
In his youth he served as a priest of the god Elagabal ( in Latin, Elagabalus ) in the hometown of his mother's family, Emesa.
He was called Elagabalus only after his death.
Caracalla's maternal aunt, Julia Maesa, successfully instigated a revolt among the Third Legion to have her eldest grandson ( and Caracalla's cousin ), Elagabalus, declared emperor in his place.
Elagabalus, barely fourteen years old, became emperor, initiating a reign remembered mainly for sexual scandal and religious controversy.
If later, hostile historians can be believed, Elagabalus showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos.
Amidst growing opposition, Elagabalus, just 18 years old, was assassinated and replaced by his cousin Alexander Severus on 11 March 222, in a plot formulated by his grandmother, Julia Maesa, and carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.
Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for extreme eccentricity, decadence and zealotry which was likely exaggerated by his successors and political rivals.
Edward Gibbon, for example, wrote that Elagabalus " abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures and ungoverned fury.
Niebuhr, " The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others " because of his " unspeakably disgusting life.
" More recent writers have tried to separate fact from fiction, presenting a more guarded view of Elagabalus and his emperorship.
Elagabalus was born around the year 203 to Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias Bassiana.
The deity Elagabalus was initially venerated at Emesa.
In Greek the sun god is Helios, hence Heliogabalus, another variant name for Elagabalus.
A Roman denarius depicting Elagabalus.
Many coins issued during Elagabalus ' reign bear the inscriptions Fides Exercitus or Fides Militum, emphasising the loyalty of the army as the basis of imperial power.
When the emperor Macrinus came to power, he suppressed the threat against his reign by the family of his assassinated predecessor, Caracalla, by exiling them — Julia Maesa, her two daughters, and her eldest grandson Elagabalus — to their estate at Emesa in Syria.
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