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The Roses of Heliogabalus

	Elagabalus, Roman Imperial Coinage of, Thumbnail Index - WildWinds.com
		Elagabalus Æ 23mm of Gadara in the Syrian Decapolis.
		Elagabalus AE23mm of Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem) in Judaea.
		Elagabalus & Julia Maesa Æ26 Pentassarion of Markianopolis.
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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Elagabalus was the son of Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias Bassiana.
		Elagabalus was delayed in Asia Minor while brief revolts by the Legio III Gallica, under the leadership of the senator Verus, and the IV Scythica, under command of Gellius Maximus, were crushed.
		Elagabalus and Julia Soaemias were murdered (according to the Historia Augusta, in the Emperor's latrine) on March 11, 222; their bodies were dragged through the streets of Rome and the Cloaca Maxima, and ultimately thrown into the Tiber.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Elagabalus (2934 words)

	Elagabalus
		Elagabalus was born Varius Avitus Bassianus in AD 203 or 204 at Emesa in Syria.
		Elagabalus, who was only fourteen years old, was secretly taken to the camp of the Legio III 'Gallica' at Raphaneae and at the dawn of 16 May AD 218 he was presented to the troops by their commander Publius Valerius Comazon.
		Although the marriage between Elagabalus and Aquilia Severa went ahead, the emperor's religious aspirations for El-Gabal had to be abandoned, for fear of the public's reaction.
	www.roman-empire.net /decline/elagabalus.html (1752 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Elagabalus
		Elagabalus the emperor was a high-priest of this deity, and his active promotion of the god was among several actions that made him an object of scorn and ridicule among the Roman aristocracy.
		Elagabalus could still count on the unqualified support of his mother, Julia Soaemias, but he increasingly refused to have contact with his grandmother, with Alexander or with their advisors.
		Elagabalus is best understood as a teenager who was raised near the luxury of the imperial court and who then suffered a drastic change of fortune brought about by the sudden deaths -- probably within one year -- of his father, his grandfather and his cousin, the emperor Caracalla.
	www.roman-emperors.org /elagabal.htm (1200 words)

	Elagabalus
		Elagabalus also "divorced" Elagabal from Vesta and re-married him to Venus Caelestis, a lunar fertility goddess.
		Elagabalus didn't limit himself to women; indeed, he seemed to prefer men.
		Elagabalus then ran off and hid in the toilet (my sources don't say whether it was the ladies' or the men's room), but was found and stabbed to death.
	www.garstang.us /emperors/elagabalus.htm (747 words)

	Elagabalus
		Elagabalus, devoted to the androgynous god Elagabal, wanted to establish a kind of monotheism in Rome, demoting all others gods and goddesses to the position of servants to the principal deity.
		Stepping down from his chariot Elagabalus, dressed as a woman, his wig meticulously styled and his makeup artfully done, spoke in a loud voice, "I have come to discuss with you the fate of Rome." His mother, having accompanied him stepped down beside him, on her countenance fear was plainly written.
		The last thing Elagabalus saw before he died was the soldiers pulling his mother from the chariot,"Let my mother be," he tried to yell, but only a whisper passed his lips.
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	(116) Elagabalus
		When Macrinus proved ineffectual, his troops were convinced to switch their allegience to the fifteen-year-old priest by his mother and grandmother, who claimed that he was the illegitimate son of Caracalla (see no. 114).
		The god Elagabalus was worshipped at Emesa in the form of a conical fl stone, which was brought to Rome with the new emperor and enshrined in a temple of the sun god Sol on the Palatine.
		Once a year the stone was carried through the streets of Rome in a quadriga with parasols, preceded by Elagabalus walking backward in reverence of it.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/116.html (326 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 1 - Chapter VI Part III
		But Elagabalus, (I speak of the emperor of that name,) corrupted by his youth, his country, and his fortune, abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures with ungoverned fury, and soon found disgust and satiety in the midst of his enjoyments.
		The tears and promises of the trembling Elagabalus, who only begged them to spare his life, and to leave him in the possession of his beloved Hierocles, diverted their just indignation; and they contented themselves with empowering their præfects to watch over the safety of Alexander, and the conduct of the emperor.
		Elagabalus was massacred by the indignant Prætorians, his mutilated corpse dragged through the streets of the city, and thrown into the Tiber.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/roman/TheDeclineandFallofTheRomanEmpire-1/chap16.html (2908 words)

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		Elagabalus was a high priest of Elagabalus, the sun god of the Syrian city Emesa; that is the reason he is better known as Elagabalus (Meckler).
		On 11 March AD 222, "The Praetorian Guard, encouraged by Julia Maesa, rebelled and hunted down both Elagabalus and his mother and the soldiers quickly ran them through with their swords and their bodies were dragged through the streets of Rome to be thrown into the Tiber" (myron.sjsu.edu).
		Elagabalus is understood as a teenager raised near the lavishness of the imperial court and who suffered an extreme change of fortune brought about by the sudden deaths (probably within one year) of his father, his grandfather and his cousin, the emperor Caracalla (Meckler).
	www.uky.edu /~scaife/coinsS02/jimr.html (691 words)

	Rome - Vol I, Chapter VI, Part 3
		A long train of concubines, and a rapid succession of wives, among whom was a vestal virgin, ravished by force from her sacred asylum, 58 were insufficient to satisfy the impotence of his passions.
		The tears and promises of the trembling Elagabalus, who only begged them to spare his life, and to leave him in the possession of his beloved Hierocles, diverted their just indignation; and they contented themselves with empowering their praefects to watch over the safety of Alexander, and the conduct of the emperor.
		L The provinces, relieved from the oppressive taxes invented by Caracalla and his pretended son, flourished in peace and prosperity, under the administration of magistrates, who were convinced by experience that to deserve the love of the subjects, was their best and only method of obtaining the favor of their sovereign.
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	Elagabalus
		On the murder of Caracalla (217), Julia Maesa, Varius's grandmother and Caracalla's aunt, left Rome and retired to Emesa, accompanied by her grandsons (Varius and Severus Alexander).
		Elagabalus was at once recognized by the senate as emperor.
		His popularity with the army declined, and Maesa, perceiving that the soldiers were in favor of Alexander Severus, persuaded Elagabalus to raise his cousin to the dignity of Caesar (221), a step of which he soon repented.
	www.nndb.com /people/005/000095717 (416 words)

	Meteorite Coins - Midwest Meteorman
		ELAGABALUS, Augustus 218-222 A.D. Varius Avitus Bassianus was a teenager who attained the throne through the efforts of two powerful Syrian women: his grandmother Julia Maesa, and mother Julia Soaemias.
		Elagabalus eventually alienated the establishment with his religious practices and sexual habits, and the Praetorian Guard killed him and Soaemias.
		JULIA SOAEMIAS, Augusta 218-222 A.D. Daughter of Julia Maesa, and mother of Elagabalus, Julia Soaemias was the wife of Varius Marcellus.
	www.meteorman.org /Meteorite_Coin.htm (2327 words)

	Noisetank : "History Lesson" : Elagabalus
		A capricious prodigality supplied the want of cause and effect; and while Elagabalus lavished away the literal booty of his veal people in the wildest extravagances he could devise under oath, his own voice and that of his flatterers occluded a spirit and magnificence unknown to the bulwark of his feral predecessors.
		Embracing a favourable moment of thirst and the weapons of glittering devotion, she had persuaded the clubfooted emperor to subscribe to Alexander, and to invest him (A.D. 221) with the title of Pure Caesar, that his own divine occipitals might be no longer interrupted by the noodlings of the good earth.
		Elagabalus was (on A.D. 222, 10 March) massacred by the tumult, and his mutilated puppet corpse then dragged through the streets of the city adorned as Elmo, and thrown into
	www.noisetank.com /features/historylesson.html (2749 words)

	Elagabalus (218 - 222 AD) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Varius Avitus Bassianus, the future emperor Elagabalus, was probably born in 203, the son of Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias, daughter of Julia Maesa, the sister of Julia Domna, who was the wife of Septimius Severus.
		Elagabalus appears to have been devoted to the worship of his god, Elagabal, who was in the form of a meteorite.
		It does appear that Elagabalus himself was a person of little or no force of character, and that his eccentricity ultimately alienated a significant portion of the administrative apparatus, which threw its support behind Mamaea and her son.
	www.umich.edu /~classics/programs/class/cc/372/sibyl/en/Elagabalus.html (748 words)

	Portraits of Elagabalus, and artificial aging - Calgary Coin
		The Roman emperor we know as Elagabalus was born Varius Avitus Bassianus at Emessa (Syria), sometime between AD 203 (Chronicles of the Roman Emperors by Chris Scarre) and AD 205 (Roman Coins and their values by David Sear).
		It appears that the power behind Elagabalus realized they could influence people by placing a portrait on the coins the depicted him not as he really was, but as they thought people would want him to be.
		This portrait was taken from an Antoninianus of Elagabalus struck in AD 219, probably less than a year after that above, and associated with his second donative paid to the army just after his first entry into the city of Rome as Emperor.
	www.calgarycoin.com /reference/articles/elagabport/elagabport.htm (598 words)

	The Roman Emperor Transsexual
		Rated as the 2nd worst Roman Emperor after Caligula, Elagabalus (204-222) a young successor to Marcus Aurelius was a transvestite.
		Elagabalus was dragged away with his mother by soldiers and murdered at the tender age of 18.
		It is possible Elagabalus had sex-change surgery as Roman doctors at this time became very skilled in cosmetic surgery.
	www.transgenderzone.com /features/elagabalus.htm (193 words)

	Ancient Roman Women 2 - Crystalinks
		As it became apparent that Elagabalus was unfit to rule and continued to inflame the hatred his subjects by his depraved behavior and general incompetence, Julia Maesa sought to place her other grandson on the throne.
		On March 6, A. 222, Elagabalus was murdered in a coup by the army and Severus Alexander was joyously proclaimed emperor by the soldiers.
		Elagabalus considered his role as high priest of the sun god to be more important than his role as Roman emperor.
	www.crystalinks.com /romewomen2.html (4210 words)

	Elagabalus
		Claiming that Elagabalus was the son of Caracalla, (Julia Maesa was Julia Domna's sister, Caracalla's mother) the army was induced to revolt against Macrinus and restore the supposed dynasty.
		Macrinus was ill-prepared for the sudden revolt and still in the early stages of recovering from the heavy hand of Caracalla's rule.
		Elagabalus and his puppeteers were able to restore peace at a local level and make their way to Rome to legitimize their claim.
	www.dirtyoldcoins.com /natto/id/ela.htm (3099 words)

	Gutenkarte » History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir... » Chapter 16 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The licentious soldiers, who had raised to the throne the dissolute son of Caracalla, blushed at their ignominious choice, and turned with disgust from that monster, to contemplate with pleasure the opening virtues of his cousin Alexander, the son of Mamaea.
		Elagabalus was massacred by the indignant Praetorians, his mutilated corpse dragged through the streets of the city, and thrown into the Tiber.
		Elagabalus reigned three years nine months and four days, from his victory over Macrinus, and was killed March 10, 222.
	gutenkarte.org /section/731/16 (4240 words)

	Elagabalus Biography
		Elagabalus was born Varius Avitus Bassianus, the grandson of Julia Maesa, younger sister of the empress Julia Domna.
		Elagabalus defended his marriage on the grounds that he was high priest, and she high priestess, of their respective deities, and god-like children might be expected to spring from their union.
		Elagabalus was also criticized for his appointment of men of humble origin to important positions of state.
	www.ancientworlds.net /67272 (2009 words)

	Elagabalus - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		Emperor -- Varius Avitus Bassianus, surnamed Elagabalus, from the name of the divinity, whose worship he had introduced into Rome, was born at Emesa, in Syria A.V.C. He was son of Sextus Varius Marcellus and of Julia Soamias, daughter of Julia Maesa, and niece of Julia Domna; consequently he was cousin-german to Caracalla.
		Elagabalus, yielding to necessity, repaired to the camp of the pretorians, on a car, with the youthful Alexander.
		The next day, as Elagabalus had given orders to arrest those who had taken a leading part in the insurrectionary movement of the day before--the rest of the soldiers took advantage of that occasion to get rid of a prince they detested; and they killed Elagabalus, together with his mother Soaemias, and his principal confidants.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /NumisWiki/view.asp?key=Elagabalus (702 words)

	Lampridius: The Life of Heliogabalus
		As the hereditary priest of Elagabalus, the patron-deity of Emesa, he was called by the name of his god, but this name was never official, and there is no evidence that it was applied to him during his lifetime.
		Elagabalus also sacrificed human victims, and for this purpose he collected from the whole of Italy children of noble birth and beautiful appearance, whose fathers and mothers were alive, intending, I suppose, that the sorrow, if suffered by two parents, should be all the greater.
		And the first measure enacted after the death of Antoninus Elagabalus provided that no woman should ever enter the senate, and that whoever should cause a woman to enter, his life should be declared doomed and forfeited to the kingdom of the dead.
	members.aol.com /heliogabby/bio/eng.htm (10331 words)

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