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... Elagabalus , the priest of Baal . Macrinus and his son Diadumenius , who had been proclaimed ELAGABALUS Caesar , were defeated in a battle outside Antioch . At one moment it seemed that Macrinus would win the victory , but Julia Maesa ...
... Elagabalus , the priest of Baal . Macrinus and his son Diadumenius , who had been proclaimed ELAGABALUS Caesar , were defeated in a battle outside Antioch . At one moment it seemed that Macrinus would win the victory , but Julia Maesa ...
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Harold Nicolson. THE DECADENCE OF ELAGABALUS Three Syrian matriarchs . Left to right : Julia Maesa , grandmother of Elagabalus , whose empire she controlled ; Julia Soemias , his mother , a woman of little political consequence ; and the ...
Harold Nicolson. THE DECADENCE OF ELAGABALUS Three Syrian matriarchs . Left to right : Julia Maesa , grandmother of Elagabalus , whose empire she controlled ; Julia Soemias , his mother , a woman of little political consequence ; and the ...
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... Elagabalus hid in a chest but was discovered . He and his mother Soemias were immediately decapitated and their naked trunks dragged through the town and flung , first into Cloaca maxima , or main drain , and thereafter into the Tiber ...
... Elagabalus hid in a chest but was discovered . He and his mother Soemias were immediately decapitated and their naked trunks dragged through the town and flung , first into Cloaca maxima , or main drain , and thereafter into the Tiber ...
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