Top 10 Worst Roman Emperors.....

[MMC]

Yeah I see.....I never knew that. Now making his Horse a High Priest and Consul. Musta really pissed the Senate off. Some say he had epilepsey. Or some sort of disease. But they really don't know. Writing say he was insane or crazy.

[MMC]

#2. The Roman Emperor-Elagabalus.....


Elagabalus (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; ca. 203 – March 11, 222), also known as Heliogabalus, was Roman Emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan Dynasty, he was Syrian on his mother's side, the son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. Early in his youth he served as a priest of the god El-Gabal at his hometown, Emesa. Upon becoming emperor he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and was called Elagabalus only after his death.

During his rule, Elagabalus showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. He replaced the traditional head of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter, with a lesser god, Deus Sol Invictus (in Greek: Helios, hence the name Heliogabalos), and forced leading members of Rome's government to participate in religious rites celebrating this deity, which he personally led. Elagabalus was married as many as five times, lavished favours on courtiers popularly assumed to have been his homosexual lovers, employed a prototype of whoopee cushions at dinner parties ^{[1] [2]} and was reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace. His reputed behaviour infuriated the Praetorian Guard, the Senate and the common people alike.

Amidst growing opposition, Elagabalus, only 18 years old, was assassinated and replaced by his cousin Alexander Severus on March 11, 222, in a plot formed by his grandmother, Julia Maesa, and disgruntled members of the Praetorian Guard.....snip~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

This guy even gave his mother and grandmother titles in the Senate. Funny how is own Grand-mother would be the one to cause his death.

[Mister D]

Yeah I see.....I never knew that. Now making his Horse a High Priest and Consul. Musta really pissed the Senate off. Some say he had epilepsey. Or some sort of disease. But they really don't know. Writing say he was insane or crazy.

Neither did I.

[Mister D]

It's hard to rate guys like Caligula, Nero and Elagabalus. The written record of them is uniformly negative. It's like asking who was worst: Hitler, Stalin or Mao? They are definitely the top three though, IMO.

[MMC]

It can be argued that Elagabalus’s assassination reign, from 218 to 222, began the Crisis of the 3rd Century, during which 50 years or so, Rome was ripped to pieces from the inside out by civil war after civil war, rampant anarchy, uprisings, economic hysteria and assaults from Germania and elsewhere.
He was a man, yes, but wanted dearly to be a woman, and offered gargantuan sums of money to the physician who could turn him into one for real.
Until then, he enjoyed cross-dressing, and $#@!d himself out to common men in $#@!houses throughout Rome, wearing female disguises and facial makeup. He even solicited men in the Imperial Palace, standing completely naked in the doorway of his favorite bedroom and purring at every passerby, even his Praetorian Guards.
He confided to the head of the Guard that he would like to castrate himself, and asked what the most painful method would be, cutting, crushing, or cooking on open coals. He had hundreds, perhaps thousands, of affairs with men and women while he was married to a Vestal virgin, which was a serious outrage among Romans.
After 4 years of this, Rome erupted into riots as the praetorian citizens demanded his death or deposition. Elagabalus responded by walking right into the praetorian encampment and demanding the arrest and execution of everyone. Instead, everyone descended on him and his mother. He tried to hide in a large clothes chest, but they opened it and stabbed him to death. He and his mother were beheaded, and dragged throughout Rome. He was then flung into the Tiber and spat upon. He was 18 years old.

[wingrider]

interesting history fellas.. some of this I already knew some of it is new to me.. Thanks one question though.. was Auralious (sp) the same one that went to england and is the purported grand father of Aurthur Pendragon?

[MMC]

interesting history fellas.. some of this I already knew some of it is new to me.. Thanks one question though.. was Auralious (sp) the same one that went to england and is the purported grand father of Aurthur Pendragon?

I had heard there was a Roman there yet his name was Artorious.....I am not sure who was on the Throne in Rome at the time. Would you happen to know who was the Empreror during that time.

[wingrider]

I had heard there was a Roman there yet his name was Artorious.....I am not sure who was on the Throne in Rome at the time. Would you happen to know who was the Empreror during that time.

Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther had been raised in Brittany since Vortigern was in power in Logres (Britain). When the brothers had reached manhood, they gathered a large army from Brittany, to avenge their brother's death (Constans') and drive out the Saxons.


Ambrosius Aurelianus, was a fifth century Roman leader in Britain who figures prominently in the early Arthurian legends.
According to the Celtic Christian writer Gildas, Ambrosius was a war leader of the Romano-British, possibly descended from Roman royalty, who won an important battle against the Saxons.
Accounts of the ninth century cast him as the antagonist of Vortigern, and the Historia Regum Britanniae, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, makes him a son of Constantine I, the brother of Uther Pendragon, and the person who ordered the building of Stonehenge.
Some scholars believe Ambrosius was the leader of the Romano-British at the Battle of Mons Badonicus and as such may have provided one of the historical bases for the legends of King Arthur.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/...ius_Aurelianus

[MMC]

I would have to question that. As Stonehedge is older than the Pyramids of Giza. Which then such would mean it was built before there was a Rome.

[Mister D]

I would have to question that. As Stonehedge is older than the Pyramids of Giza. Which then such would mean it was built before there was a Rome.

It's a legend.

Stonehenge is also mentioned within Arthurian legend. Geoffrey of Monmouth said that Merlin the wizard directed its removal from Ireland, where it had been constructed on Mount Killaraus by giants, who brought the stones from Africa. After it had been rebuilt near Amesbury, Geoffrey further narrates how first Ambrosius Aurelianus, then Uther Pendragon, and finally Constantine III, were buried inside the ring of stones. In many places in his Historia Regum Britanniae Geoffrey mixed British legend and his own imagination; it is intriguing that he connects Ambrosius Aurelianus with this prehistoric monument, seeing how there is place-name evidence to connect Ambrosius with nearby Amesbury.