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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2863059, member: 76194&quot;]She was not bad looking at all...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]682477[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But neither was Caracalla if the images from the reign of Septimius Severus are to be believed. I know he had his statues adopt a meaner look when he was sole emperor, but here he looks like a handsome young man sporting curls that would make Bob Marley quite envious.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]682478[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem appeared to be two fold:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Plautila did not love Caracalla, and being a naive young girl she didn&#039;t hide her lack of love for the future emperor (a huge mistake). This made Caracalla despise her. She was also a spendthrift and got on Caracalla&#039;s nerves because of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, he seems not to have hated her enough to keep from sleeping with her, as they managed to produce a daughter in 204 CE. But her father&#039;s plot in 205 CE to murder the imperial family definitely killed any shred of tolerance Caracalla had for Plautila. After that she was as good as dead. She was exiled to an island and Caracalla eventually had her strangled in 211 CE along with her daughter.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Her father, Fulvius Plautianus, was overly ambitious and got on Caracalla&#039;s nerves. And it doesn&#039;t help that when he learned about the marital troubles he correctly judged his life was in danger and ploted to kill Caracalla and Septimius Severus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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