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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 3408379, member: 77226&quot;]This guy... he may have been a terrible emperor but he sure was a unique personality and for that, I like him.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]905154[/ATTACH]</p><p>Elagabalus Rome RIC 125</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]905162[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The following text is from the wiki page sourced below. This is not the full text but an edited version. For the full article, click the link:</p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p><i><b>The Roses of Heliogabalus</b> is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the young Roman emperor Elagabalus (203–222 AD) hosting a banquet.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The painting depicts a (probably invented) episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus (204–222), taken from the Augustan History. Although the Latin refers to &quot;violets and other flowers&quot;, Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals released from a false ceiling. The original reference is this:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><blockquote><p><i>&quot;In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top.&quot;</i></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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