Episode CXXIV – The Lowest Depths of Foulness (Elagabalus II)

Emperors of Rome

La Trobe University

Roman Emire, Rhiannon Evans, Biography, Emperor, La Trobe University, Roman History, Julius Caesar, Rome, Caesar, Ancient History, History, Caillan Davenport, Roman Emperors

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🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When Elagabalus finally reached Rome, the city seemed to hold its breath. The young Emperor embraced both the roles of ruler and high priest of a foreign religion, and there were many that questioned where his priorities lie.

Guest:
Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)

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0:24.0	Are they? And welcome to Emperor of Rome,
0:31.0	a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.
0:34.7	I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Dr. Cayland Daffenport,
0:38.9	senior lecturer in Roman history at Macquarie University, and Humboldt Research Fellow at Goeth University, Frankfurt.
0:46.6	This is episode CX I.I.V. The lowest depths of foulness.
0:52.0	As you can tell from this episode title, Dio wasn't the biggest
0:55.2	fan of Elagabulus, and he wasn't alone there. When Elagabulus finally arrived at Rome, the city
1:01.1	seemed to hold its breath. The young emperor embraced both the roles of
1:05.1	ruler and high priest of a foreign religion, but there were many that questioned where his priorities
1:10.4	lie. He's Caitlin Davenport. So now we are into the reign of Elegabulus, so please explain
1:19.1	his many names. Yes. I'm looking at you Dio. Yeah, so the problem is we have his birth name, which is various avitus
1:29.6	Bacianus. We also have the name which he was called as Emperor, his official imperial name,
1:37.0	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
1:40.0	And that's not unusual for an entirely new name to be taken as an imperial name.
1:45.1	So I'm not holding that against him at this point.
1:47.4	No, we can't hold that against him.
1:49.2	There were various other nicknames that he had at the time either given by DIO or in popular usage and at the beginning
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