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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 7788778, member: 72790"]It would be interesting to compare her images on coins issued as the wife of Septimius as opposed to those issued later under her son, Caracalla. I don't have enough of her coins to do that. The coins that Caracalla issued himself, as sole emperor, don't often look like those of a person liking anybody. I have often thought that in comparing emperors, that Caracalla belongs close to the top of any list of cruel rulers along with the likes of Caligula or Domitian. Readers might want to, as a an illustration of this, take a look at what Caligula did on a visit to Alexandria when he was annoyed at the behavior of some boisterous youth. Perhaps Julia was numbed by her son's behavior by this point, or maybe, like Agrippina, she would countenance murder, in advancing the career of her son, as Agrippina did for her son, Nero. Maybe most Roman parents would countenance anything to advance their children's careers but the story of Cornelia and her two jewels, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, seems to show Roman parenting in a more favorable light, at least by our standards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 7788778, member: 72790"]It would be interesting to compare her images on coins issued as the wife of Septimius as opposed to those issued later under her son, Caracalla. I don't have enough of her coins to do that. The coins that Caracalla issued himself, as sole emperor, don't often look like those of a person liking anybody. I have often thought that in comparing emperors, that Caracalla belongs close to the top of any list of cruel rulers along with the likes of Caligula or Domitian. Readers might want to, as a an illustration of this, take a look at what Caligula did on a visit to Alexandria when he was annoyed at the behavior of some boisterous youth. Perhaps Julia was numbed by her son's behavior by this point, or maybe, like Agrippina, she would countenance murder, in advancing the career of her son, as Agrippina did for her son, Nero. Maybe most Roman parents would countenance anything to advance their children's careers but the story of Cornelia and her two jewels, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, seems to show Roman parenting in a more favorable light, at least by our standards.[/QUOTE]
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