Severan dynasty

Roman emperor from 193 to 211

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Lucius Septimius Bassianus, 4 April 188 – 8 April 217), better known by his nickname Caracalla (; ), was Roman emperor from 198 to 217 AD, first serving as nominal co-emperor under his father and then ruling alone after 211 AD. He was a member of the Severan dynasty, the elder son of Emperor Septimius Severus and Empress Julia Domna. Severus proclaimed Caracalla co-ruler in 198, doing the same with his other son Geta in 209. The two brothers briefly shared power after their father's death in 211, but Caracalla soon had Geta murdered by the Praetorian Guard

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, 204 – 13 March 222), better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus ( ) and Heliogabalus ( ), was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. His short reign was notorious for religious controversy and alleged sexual debauchery. A close relative to the Severan dynasty, he came from a prominent Syrian Arab family in Emesa (Homs), Syria, where he served as the head priest of the sun god Elagabal from a young age. After the death of his cousin, the emperor Caracalla, Elagabalus was raised to the Principate at 1

Roman Emperor (208-235)

Roman emperor from 209 to 211

Diadumenian ( ; ; 14September 208 – June 218) was the son of the Roman emperor Macrinus and served as his co-ruler for a brief time in 218. His mother, Macrinus' wife, is called Nonia Celsa in the unreliable , though this name may have been fictional. Diadumenian became in May 217, shortly after his father's accession to the imperial throne. Elagabalus, a relative of the recently deceased Caracalla, revolted in May of the following year, and Diadumenian was elevated to co-emperor. After Macrinus was defeated in the Battle of Antioch on 8 June 218, Diadumenian was sent to the court of Artabanus

Ulpian (; ; 223 or 228) was a Roman jurist born in Tyre in Roman Syria (modern Lebanon). He moved to Rome and rose to become considered one of the great legal authorities of his time. He was one of the five jurists upon whom decisions were to be based according to the Law of Citations of Valentinian III, and supplied the Justinian Digest about a third of its contents.

ancient Roman empress

Roman imperial dynasty (ruled 193 to 235)

public baths in ancient Rome

Aemilius Papinianus (; ; 142 CE–212 CE), simply rendered as Papinian () in English, was a celebrated Roman jurist, magister libellorum, attorney general (advocatus fisci) and, after the death of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus in 205 CE, praetorian prefect.

five men claimed the title of Roman emperor in 193 AD

thumb|upright=1.2|Row 1: Elagabalus ([[silver 218–222 AD), Trajan Decius (silver 249–251 AD), Gallienus (billon 253–268 AD Asian mint);Row 2: Gallienus (copper 253–268 AD), Aurelian (silvered 270–275 AD), barbarous radiate (copper), barbarous radiate (copper)]] thumb|upright=1.2 |The antoninianus, introduced in 215 AD, continued the denarius's slow decline in silver purity. The antoninianus or pre-reform radiate was a coin used during the Roman Empire thought to have been valued at 2 denarii. It was initially silver, but was slowly debased to bronze with a mi

grandmother of Roman emperors Elagabalus and Severus Alexander

mother of Roman emperor Elagabalus (180-222)

mother of Roman emperor Alexander Severus (died 235)

Roman empress, wife of Elagabalus

wife of the Roman emperor Caracalla (died 211)

Roman empress as consort of Severus Alexander

wife of Roman emperor Elagabalus

charioteer and lover of Roman Emperor Elagabalus (died 222)

Roman aristocrat and consul (c.175-c.212)

235 battle between Roman and Germanic troops (c.235)

Syrian high priest of Elagabalus (died 217)

partner of Elagabalus