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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mena7: [QB] Severus Dynasty [IMG]http://finds.org.uk/images/rulers/macrinus.jpg[/IMG] Roman Emperor Macrinus [IMG]http://www.romanscotland.org.uk/pages/chronology/emperors/img/Macrinus.jpg[/IMG] Roman Emperor Macrinus Macrinus (Latin: Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus;[1] ca. 165 June 218), was Roman Emperor from 217 to 218. Macrinus was of Berber (Indigenous people of North Africa) descent and as a member of the equestrian class he became the first emperor who did not hail from the senatorial class.[2] Macrinus was overthrown and executed in 218 [IMG]http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Images_Etruscan/Elagabalus.jpg[/IMG] Roman Emperor Elagabal [IMG]http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc2/sc230068.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=568&cell=568,427&cvt=jpeg[/IMG] Roman Emperor Elagabal Elagabalus (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; c. 203 11 March 222), also known as Heliogabalus, was Roman Emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan Dynasty, he was Syrian, the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. In his early youth he served as a priest of the god Elagabal (in Latin, Elagabalus) in the hometown of his mother's family, Emesa. As a private citizen, he was probably named Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus.[1] Upon becoming emperor he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus. He was called Elagabalus only after his death. In 217, the emperor Caracalla was assassinated and replaced by his Praetorian prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. 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. Macrinus was defeated on 8 June 218, at the Battle of Antioch. Elagabalus, barely fourteen years old, became emperor, initiating a reign remembered mainly for sexual scandal and religious controversy. Later historians suggest Elagabalus showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. He replaced the traditional head of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter, with the deity of whom he was high priest, Elagabal. He forced leading members of Rome's government to participate in religious rites celebrating this deity, over which he personally presided. 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,[2][3] 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 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 [IMG]http://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/649/flashcards/2013649/jpg/3951354683858969.jpg[/IMG] Roman Emperor Alexander Severus [IMG]http://www.livius.org/a/1/emperors/ryakia_severus_alexander_mus_dion2.JPG[/IMG] Roman Empero Alexander severus Severus Alexander (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus;[1] 1 October 208 18 or 19 March 235) was Roman Emperor from 222 to 235. Alexander was the last emperor of the Severan dynasty. 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. Alexander was the heir apparent to his cousin, the eighteen-year-old Emperor who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards, who, as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into the Tiber river.[2] He and his cousin were both grandsons of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa, who had arranged for Elagabalus' acclamation as emperor by the famous Third Gallic Legion. It was the rumor of Alexander's death that triggered the assassination of Elagabalus and his mother.[3] As emperor, Alexander's peace time reign was prosperous. However militarily Rome was confronted with the rising Sassanid Empire. He managed to check the threat of the Sassanids, but when campaigning against Germanic tribes of Germania, Alexander attempted to bring peace by engaging in diplomacy and bribery. This apparently alienated many in the legions and led to a conspiracy to assassinate and replace him [/QB][/QUOTE]
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