Caracalla
c. 188 CE–c. 217 CE · Lyon
Caracalla (born 188 CE at Lugdunum, modern Lyon; died 217 CE) was a Severan emperor best known for the Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana) of 212 CE, which extended Roman citizenship to nearly all free inhabitants of the empire and, for the first time, nominally brought Jews across the empire into the body of Roman citizens. No anti-Jewish or anti-Christian legislation is recorded during his short reign, continuing the relative rapprochement with the Jewish community begun under his father Septimius Severus. Later Jewish tradition celebrated an emperor "Antoninus" as a friend of Rabbi Yehuda ha-Nasi, redactor of the Mishnah; Caracalla is one of several Severan-era figures scholars have proposed for that identification, which remains uncertain.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Caracalla’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Septimius Severus· 145 CE–211 CE
- Gordian I· 159 CE–238 CE
- Sextus Empiricus· 160 CE–210 CE
- Commodus· 161 CE–192 CE
- Pupienus· 164 CE–238 CE
- Cassius Dio· 165 CE–235 CE
- Alexander of Aphrodisias· 165 CE–220 CE
- Macrinus· 165 CE–218 CE
- Athenaeus of Naucratis· 170 CE–230 CE
- Herodian· 170 CE–240 CE
- Philostratus the Athenian· 170 CE–245 CE
- Philostratus Sophista· 170 CE–245 CE
- Maximinus Thrax· 173 CE–238 CE
- Aelian· 175 CE–235 CE
- Oppian of Apamea· 175 CE–220 CE
- Balbinus· 178 CE–238 CE
- Geta· 189 CE–211 CE
- Gordian II· 192 CE–238 CE
- Valerian· 199 CE–260 CE
- Decius· 201 CE–251 CE
- Elagabalus· 204 CE–222 CE
- Philip the Arab· 204 CE–249 CE
- Trebonianus Gallus· 206 CE–253 CE
- Severus Alexander· 208 CE–235 CE
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