What was his fucking problem?

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Big mistake from the romans to elect an arab religious priest as emperor.

>Tfw you will never be a Roman emperor and order all the burly, manly, and hairy men in the empire to fill your boypussy

Feels bad, man

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Sissy hypno porn

He certainly ranks among the worst emperors. His problem was that he was a hipster asshole

gave me a good chuckle lad

More focused on being an agendered sodomite hungry for cock (primarily from his chariot driver) in their ass and being hairless than running an Empire that was doing well but ran into problems because Caracalla and Septimius both devaluef the fuck out of the currency to pay for their wars/love of the troops.
I really wish Caracalla didn't get fucked over by history. Would've been nice to see Rome actually hold on to Mesopotamia and push further into Parthia.
If Rome could've cemented its hold on mesopotamia under Caracalla (which it very well could have) there probably never would have been a Sassanid Empire.
Crushing the Parthians would've been extremely easy considering Septimius' and Aurelius' crushing the Parthians. Caracalla could've potentially secured Mesopotamia and subjected the Parthians to client status.
In reality because he was so ruthless and Alexandrian in his aspirations he probably would've tried to conquer further territory. Who knows.

But there certainly wouldn't have been this fuck as Emperor.

How did he ever even get the throne? I know that his grandmother or aunt placed him on the throne but why? He's a fucking immature transgender narcissist.

When the righful/capable (but albeit COLOSSAL DICKHEAD) of an Emperor (Caracalla) was murdered by his own Praetorian prefect because some retarded oracle prophesized it (forcing him to kill or be killed). The praetorian prefect became a pretender, but was eventually deposed. This ultimately fucked over the Severan Dynasty

The Severan Dynasty marked this weird transitional period in Roman history.
They were Provincials who tried to promote the status of other provincials (Being that Septimius was Latin/Phoenician and his wife was Greco/Syrian) ESPECIALLY to the Eastern Provinces and Africa.
Being that Septimius, similar to the case with the year of the four Emperors and the Flavian Dynasty, was the victorious general who established his own dynasty. But unlike the Flavians, there was no Senatorial faction that restored the status quo (usherance of the Nervam-Antonine dynasty of adoptive meritocratic emperors).
Rather, Septimius and Caracalla both proved amazing Emperors militarily and promised a bold new future for the Empire in military endeavors. But Caravalla's murder and their both MASSIVELY devaluing the currency (by decreasing the silver content) ro buy the love of the military and finance extremely lavish building projects. They fucked over the Empire's economy.
Had Caracalla not been murdered and successfuly conquered the Parthian empire, they probably would have balanced the budget from spoils of war.
Alas, Caracalla murder assured the damnation of the Severan Dynasty because they weren't able to recover from such an early death of their patriarch (who killed his own brother). Things started falling apart and without victories abroad, the inevitability of the Crisis of the 3rd century kicked in.

This crisis shifted the Empire from the classical Roman Empire we all love (the Principate and Severan Dynasty) and largely removed the Senatorially Political justification to the existence of the Roman state as an Empire.
It also marked the transitiom from Classical into Late antiquity. When everything we Ancient Hstorians (in my case, histoian to be) love fell to complete shit.
It is a sad but fascinating time of watching everything the glorious men of the Republic and Principate worked so hard for decay and burn.

But why was Elagabalus in particular placed upon the throne?

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