26 Elagabalus

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2016

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Bassianus to his mother, Antoninus to the troops (sort of), 'The Assyrian' behind his back and Elagabalus to history. This is one emperor who has made a name (or several) for himself. But who is the man (boy) behind the myth? Did he kill boys? (Probably not) Did he throw cattle at people? (maybe not) Did he invent the Whoopie Cushion? (Yes). What we do know is that the senate hated him. And they have the quills...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Elagabalus.
0:13.0	Hello, Amphi. Hello and welcome to Roman Emperor, so tell us Rancium. I am Jamie.
0:27.8	Now I'm Rob, ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustulus, episode 26, Elagabalus.
0:34.0	Now, we just had a bit of a...
0:36.8	Chat.
0:37.4	A chat a few minutes ago, didn't we?
0:39.3	Yeah, the pronunciation or pronunciation is, uh...
0:43.3	I like it.
0:45.3	Yeah, it's debatable. Well, we're going to go for elegabalus.
0:49.3	Elegab... It sounds funnier. Yeah.
0:51.3	A lagerbalus.
0:52.3	Oh, you could say it that way. A labab... No. I'm just funny got hung up
0:57.1	eleagabal. I'm going to say, eleagabalus. That's what I'm going to say. This can be painful.
1:04.4	This is why he goes down in history. It's not a very good emperor. No one could say his name.
1:08.7	It just annoyed people.
1:12.4	Yeah. Right. Okay.
1:15.7	Before we start, let's have a quick look at the family tree.
1:17.7	Oh yes. There we go.
1:21.4	Just for the listeners benefit, just explain the family tree.
1:25.3	And I will actually put that up on the WordPress site this week.
1:26.4	We'll photograph it as well.
1:30.3	So we've got, it starts off with Severus, married to Julia D. Domna.
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