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Elagabalus and tried
" More recent writers have tried to separate fact from fiction, presenting a more guarded view of Elagabalus and his emperorship.
While Julia Maesa tried to position herself as the power behind the throne and thus the most powerful woman in the world, Elagabalus would prove to be highly independent, set in his ways, and impossible to control.
Elagabalus unsuccessfully tried to have Hierocles declared Caesar, which would have made him the emperor's successor.
For example, Elagabalus had tried fostering his own god and no others, and had failed dramatically.

Elagabalus and have
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 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.
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.
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.
The novels have described periods when Saint-Germain has resided in the Roman Empire during reigns of Nero and Elagabalus, France during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis XV, Russia during the reigns of Ivan the Terrible and Nicholas II, Germany in the 10th Century, Germany, Spain, and England between the First and Second World Wars, China during the Mongol invasion, Peru during the Spanish invasion, and the United States in the modern era.
Caracalla was ( falsely ) rumoured to have fathered a bastard by his first cousin Julia Soaemias ( daughter of his maternal aunt Julia Maesa ); this rumoured bastard would later become " Elagabalus " ( see below ).
Elagabalus is believed to have had religious reasons for marrying Severa — he himself was a follower of the eastern sun god El-Gabal, and when marrying himself to Severa, he also conducted a symbolic marriage of his god to Vesta.
It is claimed by some historians, however, that many stories about Elagabalus have been exaggerated by his enemies, and so there is no certainty about what actually happened.
Elagabalus appears to have been either homosexual or bisexual, and the historian Cassius Dio claims that Elagabalus had a more stable relationship with his chariot driver, Hierocles, than with any of his wives.
The Roman emperor Elagabalus is also reported to have done the same.
Numismatic and other evidence that have survived of her, date from her second, brief marriage, to Elagabalus.

Elagabalus and presumed
* The Evidence for Aelian's Katêgoria tou gunnidos regarding Aelian's presumed invective against Elagabalus
* Hierocles ( charioteer ), 2nd-3rd century, presumed lover and court official of the emperor Elagabalus

Elagabalus and lover
Hierocles ( late 2nd century – 222 ) was reputedly a favorite and lover of the Roman emperor Elagabalus.

Elagabalus and charioteer
He was from Caria and was at some point enslaved and became a charioteer in the service of Elagabalus.

Elagabalus and Hierocles
Elagabalus considered the blond Hierocles to be his husband and is credited with saying:
Hierocles was executed, along with other members of Elagabalus ' court, when the emperor fell from power in disgrace in 222.
* Hierocles, favourite of Elagabalus

Elagabalus and declared
Elagabalus ' mother publicly declared that he was the illegitimate son of Caracalla, therefore due the loyalties of Roman soldiers and senators who had sworn allegiance to Caracalla.
Both consuls and other high-ranking members of Rome's leadership condemned Elagabalus, and the Senate subsequently declared war on both Elagabalus and Julia Maesa.
Elagabalus declared the date of the victory at Antioch to be the beginning of his reign and assumed the imperial titles without prior senatorial approval, which violated tradition but was a common practice among 3rd-century emperors nonetheless.
Diadumenian had little time to enjoy his position or to learn anything from its opportunities because the legions of Syria revolted and declared Elagabalus ruler of the Roman Empire.

Elagabalus and Caesar
Seeing that her grandson's outrageous behavior could mean the loss of power, Julia Maesa persuaded Elagabalus to accept his cousin Alexander Severus as Caesar ( and thus the nominal Emperor to be ).
However, Alexander was popular with the troops, who viewed their new Emperor with dislike: when Elagabalus, jealous of this popularity, removed the title of Caesar from his nephew the enraged praetorian guard swore to protect him.
* June 26 – Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.

Elagabalus and while
* The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 43 percent under emperor Elagabalus, down from 50 percent under Septimius Severus, as he empties the treasury with his excesses while his grandmother, Julia Maesa, rules the Empire.
Herodian also relates that Elagabalus forced senators to watch while he danced around his deity's altar to the sound of drums and cymbals, and at each summer solstice celebrated a great festival, popular with the masses because of food distributions, during which he placed the holy stone on a chariot adorned with gold and jewels, which he paraded through the city:
Pius Felix Invictus Augustus (" Elagabalus " had introduced the use of Pius Felix, " the Pious and Blessed ", while Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus " Thrax " introduced the use of Invictus, " the Unconquered "), and were called the Augusti, while the two junior sub-Emperors were styled identically to previous Emperors-designate, as NN.
Elagabalus became emperor while Macrinus fled, having shaved off his beard and hair to disguise himself as a member of the military police.

Elagabalus and another
In Greek the sun god is Helios, hence Heliogabalus, another variant name for Elagabalus.
Elagabalus and Alexander Severus ( also seen more correctly as " Severus Alexander ") were first cousins ; Alexander Severus's mother was Julia Mamaea, another daughter of Julia Maesa.
Porphyry states that on one occasion at Edessa, Bardaisan interviewed an Indian deputation of holy men ( designated as Σαρμαναίοι, Sramanas ) who had been sent to the Roman emperor Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor, and questioned them as to the nature of Indian religion.

Elagabalus and Aurelius
Elagabalus ( Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, ca.
To strengthen his legitimacy through further propaganda, Elagabalus assumed Caracalla's names, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
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.
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 )
* Imperator Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus ( Elagabalus ) and Quintus Tineius Sacerdos become Roman Consuls.
* Imperator Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus ( Elagabalus ) and Valerius Comazon Eutychianus become Roman Consuls.
He married Julia Soaemias, and was the supposed father of Varius Avitus Bassianus, the later Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus.
The cult statue was brought to Rome by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who before his accession was the hereditary high priest at Emesa and is commonly called Elagabalus after the deity.
At least two emperors, Marcus Aurelius and Elagabalus, were formally accepted as members of the Brethren.
* Annia Faustina or Annia Aurelia Faustina, the great, granddaughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger, the third wife of Roman Emperor Elagabalus

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