Who is the most hated emperor in Rome?
The most hated by Christians was Emperor Nero, so the tyrant of Rome is Nero.
But perhaps the most hated by Roman citizens of his time was Elagabalus, the 23rd emperor.
Descendants of the Severus family
Elagabalus is the grandson of Julia Mesa, the sister of the wife of the 20th Roman emperor Severan Severus Septimius.
It is said that the Senate was reluctant to take the throne of Emperor Severus, but it is said that the main reason was that Julia Domna, the wife of Emperor Severus, was born to a Syrian priest.
Domna herself knew it and lived humblely, but her sister Mesa didn't.
The Severus family was forced to relocate to Syria after the assassination of Caracalla, the son of Severus, but as soon as he saw the military's mismanagement away from him, he quickly seized the soldiers' hearts. go.
Mesa took her grandson Elagabalus to the soldiers and declared that she was the secret child of the late Emperor Karakala.
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Emperor Karakala himself was a tyrant, but his military talent was so good that he was very popular with his soldiers.
The soldiers fought against Macrinus under the banner of Helio Gabalus, only 14 years old, and won. In fact, most soldiers abandoned Macrinus and arrived at Heliogabalus. Macrinus escaped and became a man who never returned on the way.
Inauguration of the emperor
Many Roman emperors were from North Africa during this period, but Elagabalus became the first Roman emperor from the Orient, known as the Orient.
Basically, the cultures of the Orient and Rome are different.
The Orient is usually a country of absolute tyranny, but in Rome the republic was basically ideal, and until the time of Emperor Aurelius, the emperor was Princeps, meaning the first citizen of Rome.
Elagabalus was very oriental.
Since it was originally born of the Orient's family of sun worship, there were many points that did not match Roman polytheism, but even if it was subtracted, its reign was terrible.
Helio Gabalus is, as usual, a nickname, derived from the name of his invading sun god. His pre-emperor name was Valius Avitus Bassianus, and his official name after his inauguration was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus.
In terms of form, it seems that it was intended to inherit the politics of Emperor Aurelius, but the actual politics was far from that.
Helio Gabalus, who became emperor at the age of 14, was politically the puppet of his grandmother Julia Mesa. He himself seems to have been raised to be a priest and didn't know anything about his politics.
Perhaps because of this, Elagabalus remained in the dual position of the Roman emperor and the priest of the god Elagabalus, and was only acting on the belief in the sun god. In the first place, it took more than a year from the declaration of the emperor's coronation to the actual arrival in Rome.
Initially, the Senate did not recognize Elagabalus as an emperor, but he approves his inauguration in the face of his overwhelming force. The Senate no longer has the same spirit as it once did.
It is said that Helio Gabalus, who arrived in Rome and appeared in the Senate chamber, wore an oriental robe instead of a Roman costume. The equipment he wore was uniformly regal, with a golden crown shining on his head.
The Roman emperor does not wear a crown. This was something that the first emperor Augustus was very careful about, and he said that the emperor was Princeps, the first citizen of Rome. Therefore, he decided to wear a laurel wreath instead of a crown representing an oriental despot.
After all, Julia Mesa sent a portrait of Elagabalus to her Senate chamber and forced her to make a tribute to her portrait.
Helio Gabalus itself seems to have grown up to be a rather ferocious personality, and there is an anecdote that his tutor killed him in response to the saying "live with self-control".
Puppet politics and decadence
China's politics was disturbed by eunuch officials and consort kins.
Japanese politics did not have any harmful effects because it did not import eunuch officials, but the harmful effects of consort kin politics such as Mr. Fujiwara and Mr. Taira were large, but the harm of consort kins also became Moro in Rome at this time. It can be said that it came out.
Political power was held by her grandmother, Julia Mesa, and her clan, who placed the breathtaking figure in a key position in Rome.
The captain of the Konoe, who they appointed, experienced three consuls, and Mesa even tried to give himself the title of Senate Goddess and, after all, Elagabalus' favorite slave to her co-sovereign.
Of course, these acts were antipathy, but the one that was most antipathy was probably the priestess of Vesta.
Vesta is the Roman name for Hestia in Greek mythology, and because Vesta herself was a virgin, her shrine maiden had to keep it, but Elagabalus didn't know that.
With a nasty lust! !!
Elagabalus has been married five times during her four years of reign.
He divorced immediately after he was forced to marry the priestess of Vesta, and soon after that he was forced to marry Annia Faustina, who is known for her beauty, despite her husband.
This woman is of the blood of Emperor Aurelius and seems to have a political marriage meaning, but because of that she is murdering her husband for no reason, it seems that Elagabalus is a tyrant. Is.
What's more, the last marriage partner was a man, so ...
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Even the emperors of China haven't had such a bad feeling, and I think that such a person had been in the throne for four years at best.
To be honest, both Nero and Commodus are better than this one! !!
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By the way, the picture at the beginning is a picture titled "Rose of Heliogabalus", which is a figure that Heliogabalus and his entourage enjoy watching a person who chokes on a rose.
Kaiji! !!
The worst end of the worst emperor
It was not the Senate, Roman citizens, or soldiers who abandoned Elagabalus.
It was none other than my grandmother Julia Mesa.
Mesa decides to drag her from the throne because of the terribleness of Elagabalus. Specifically, she decided to make her cousin of Elagabalus the next emperor.
Mesa said to Helio Gabalus. If you make Alexander the emperor, you don't have to do politics.
Elagabalus gladly placed his cousin Alexander in the position of co-emperor, which the Senate also approved.
But Helio Gabalus regrets this. Everyone listened only to Alexander and couldn't hear what he was saying.
She asked her grandmother, Mesa, to withdraw the co-emperor, but it was rejected.
Elagabalus ordered the Guard Secretary to assassinate Alexander in an attempt to kill his cousin.
However, it was Helio Gabalus that Captain Konoe assassinated.
In 222 AD, soldiers ridiculed and murdered the emperor with ridicule. His body was routed around the city of Rome, and the body was thrown into the river without being put into a grave.
At this time, Helio Gabalus was 18 years old. It was too last ...
Evaluation of Heliogabalus
Nero has been re-evaluated in recent years. He was terrible at Commodus, but he didn't waste his enrollment, he didn't persecute Christians, and the lives of Roman citizens weren't really threatened.
But Elagabalus, you're the only one.
Since ancient times, various historians have evaluated Helio Gabalus.
18th-century British historian Edward Gibbon praised Heliogabalus as follows:
"The worst tyrant who surrendered to ugly desires and emotions" "Heliogabalus was the worst emperor in Roman history in all respects"
There is no doubt that the historian Cassius Dio of the same era gave the same evaluation to Elagabalus and was hated in Rome at that time.
It wasn't like the soldiers who loved him like Emperor Karakara.
There are quite a few worst emperors in Rome, but the worst will be decided by this Heliogabalus.
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However, when Elagabalus became emperor, he was 14 years old. He's in the first grade of junior high school or something like that.
If you become the world's most powerful person in such a year, it would normally be strange.