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From the "Crisis of the Third Century" until the deposition of the last Western Empire in 476, Rome's last two centuries were filled with struggle.

The Severan Dynasty 193 - 235 AD (- threads, 36 posts)
    Elagabalus (2 posts)
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    Caracalla was assassinated, and the Mauretanian usurper Macrinus was able to hold the purple for about a year, but the pressures of the office conspired against him and eventually the army led by Elagabalus, son of a niece of Caracalla, ended his reign. In many ways as excessive as Caligula, he too was soon assassinated. 218 - 222 AD ...
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    Author: * Drusus Claudius - 1 Post on this thread out of 441 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Aug 11, 2004 - 07:53

    Pretty eccentric words. Making his own dynasty a continuance of the Antonines was a Severan propaganda trick. No blood ties, why not "Severus Alexander, Last of the Antonines"?


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