I watched a documentary on Elagabalus. A light in the loafers gender dysphoric Emperor. He is in the top 5 of the all time cruel leaders of Roam. An out and out Ahole who was obviously a sociopath. Denarius
One can argue that our current political leaders haven't learned anything from history, perhaps they should.
I wouldn't blame him too much, after all what do you expect making a 14 year old the emperor of the most powerful empire in the world at that time. Here's a limes denarius showing the black stone of Emesa that was carried by quadriga, all the way from Syria to Rome. It has been said that Elagabalus himself walked backwards while guiding the convoy, facing his god and holding the horses' reins, as he made the whole journey in this reverse fashion.
Sorry but releasing pit vipers into the attendees to a coliseum games and watching to see who dies, making nude women pull his chariot around while whipping them can not be pawned off as youthful exuberance. He obviously had Gender Dysphoria. He had 5 wives and one husband, [puke in my mouth a bit. ] Its said he sacrificed children to his god, cross dresser, tied people to a water wheel to watch them drown while eating dinner, This individual was a Sociopath, No one can do these things and have empathy at the same time. I would bet he would have been a serial killer in another life.
