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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 166383, member: 6370&quot;]very nice Mikjo0, the whole happy serveran family with cousin elegabalus (Bassianus) ((Antoninus)) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I always love this family portrait:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/history/pictures/severus_family.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Although I admit its horrible to kill your own brother, I have read a lot about this family and Geta was not much younger than Caracalla (1 year) when he was killed, and he was killed before many coins with his older portrait could be minted thus we see so many sweet child portraits of Geta (as you will see of caracalla as well) so we tend to think of him as being ruthlessly cut down as a child by caracalla who looks very rough and mean in later coin portraits...but Geta was like 21? when he was killed and the 2 brothers did not get along and did not want to share power, Geta just as much as Caracalla...it just so happens Caracalla got him first...I doubt Geta was a innocent young man who was simply killed by his evil brother....they were equals in power after their fathers death and they both wanted all the power thus they split into camps and BOTH rfused to work with the other....Geta would have killed Caracalla IMO but fail to do so before his own death. If he had we would all be looking at young caracalla coins saying that poor young child cut down by his evil brother Geta <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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