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minus-square@[email protected]OPMlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 days agohttps://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/80*.html Cassius Dio here refers to Elagabalus as ‘The False Antoninus’, ‘Avitus’, and ‘Sardanapalus’; Elagabalus was the name of the Syrian sun god they identified with.
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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/80*.html
Cassius Dio here refers to Elagabalus as ‘The False Antoninus’, ‘Avitus’, and ‘Sardanapalus’; Elagabalus was the name of the Syrian sun god they identified with.
Thank you. And now excuse me, I’m jumping right into this rabbit hole!