Elagabalus
c. 204 CE–c. 222 CE · Homs
Severan emperor (reigned 218-222 CE) who as a teenager served as hereditary priest of the Syrian sun-god Elagabal at Emesa and, upon becoming emperor, sought to install that deity at the head of the Roman pantheon. His religious innovations and conduct alienated Rome's elite, and he was assassinated by the Praetorian Guard in 222 and replaced by his cousin Severus Alexander.
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Homs
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About Homs
Homs (classical Emesa), in west-central Syria on the Orontes, was an important city of Bilad al-Sham. It is traditionally the burial place of the companion and general Khalid ibn al-Walid (d. 642), whose mosque and tomb stand there; the poets al-Buhturi (d. 897) and Abu Tammam (d. c. 845) are associated with the region of Syria.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Elagabalus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Gordian I· 159 CE–238 CE
- Pupienus· 164 CE–238 CE
- Cassius Dio· 165 CE–235 CE
- Alexander of Aphrodisias· 165 CE–220 CE
- Macrinus· 165 CE–218 CE
- Philostratus the Athenian· 170 CE–245 CE
- Philostratus Sophista· 170 CE–245 CE
- Herodian· 170 CE–240 CE
- Athenaeus of Naucratis· 170 CE–230 CE
- Maximinus Thrax· 173 CE–238 CE
- Aelian· 175 CE–235 CE
- Oppian of Apamea· 175 CE–220 CE
- Balbinus· 178 CE–238 CE
- Caracalla· 188 CE–217 CE
- Geta· 189 CE–211 CE
- Gordian II· 192 CE–238 CE
- Valerian· 199 CE–260 CE
- Tacitus· 200 CE–276 CE
- Decius· 201 CE–251 CE
- Philip the Arab· 204 CE–249 CE
- Plotinus· 204 CE–270 CE
- Trebonianus Gallus· 206 CE–253 CE
- Aemilianus· 207 CE–253 CE
- Severus Alexander· 208 CE–235 CE
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Christian world
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