Caracalla in a sentence

Septimius Severus may have tried to make Caracalla and Geta get along, but, as soon as he died, the two brothers never shared a room without the presence of their mother, Julia Domna, or their own guards.

After Caracalla concluded his campaign against the Alamanni it became evident that he was inordinately preoccupied with the Greek-Macedonian general and conqueror, Alexander the Great.

After stopping briefly to urinate, Caracalla was approached by a soldier, Justin Martialis, and stabbed to death.

Alongside this, these contemporary sources present Caracalla as a 'soldier-emperor' for his preference of the soldiery over the senators, a depiction which would have made him even less popular with the senatorial biographers.

Aureus with Septimius Severus, Julia Domna, Caracalla and Geta Septimius Severus was already in his early thirties at the time of his first marriage.

By Caracalla's time the name Alemanni was being used by cantons themselves banding together for purposes of supporting a citizen army (the "war bands").

Caracalla, it was claimed, tried to counter this influence by invoking his ancestral spirits.

Caracalla's likeness was readily available to the painters due to the distinct style of his portraiture and his unusual fashion, more akin to a soldier than emperor, which distinguished him from other emperors.

Dio explicitly presented Caracalla as an emperor who marched with the soldiers and behaved like a soldier, and as having large military expenditures and subsequent financial problems.

Galen compliments Severus and Caracalla on keeping a supply of drugs for their friends and mentions three cases in which they had been of use in 198. The Antonine Plague main The Antonine Plague was named after Marcus Aurelius’ family name of Antoninus.

Geta (209 211) main Younger son of Severus, Geta was made co-emperor with his older brother Caracalla upon his father's death.

Gibbon in his work describes Caracalla as "the common enemy of mankind".

In 215, the emperor Caracalla visited the city and, because of some insulting satires that the inhabitants had directed at him, abruptly commanded his troops to put to death all youths capable of bearing arms.

In January 205, Caracalla accused Plautianus for plotting to kill him and Severus.

In planning his invasion of the Parthian Empire, Caracalla decided to equip the men of his army of 16,000 men in the style of Macedonian phalanxes, despite the Roman army having made the Phalanx an obsolete tactical formation.

In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns.

It did not include the upper Main, but that is where Caracalla campaigned.

It may have been during Caracalla's campaigns in the Rhine and Danube that he took to wearing a Gallic hooded cloak which had given him his nickname.

Macrinus in an effort to placate the Senate instead ordered the secret removal of statues of Caracalla from the public view.

On April 8, 217, Caracalla was assassinated traveling to Carrhae.