This lecture was recorded in early 2014 with older recording equipment. For more recent, higher quality lectures please visit my channel page: https://www.youtube.com/basilgentleman Subscribe http://bit.ly/1rF6ujo Facebook http://on.fb.me/1ysSTl5 Twitter http://bit.ly/11CIWF8 Google+ http://bit.ly/1w1PbzK List of entries from my series Sayings of the Classical World in alphabetical order: A Aeschines, Aeschylus, Aesop, Agasicles, Agathocles, Agathon, Agesilaus II, Agesipolis II, Agis II, Agis III, Agis IV, Alcamenes, Alcibiades, Alexander III, Alexander Severus, Alexander II Zabinas, Alexis, Anacharsis, Anacreon, Anaxagoras, Anaxander, Anaxandridas II, Anaxarchus, Antalcidas, Antigonus I, Antigonus III, Antiochus III, Antiochus VII, Antiochus, Antipater, Antisthenes, Antoninus Pius, Apelles, Appius Claudius Caecus, Apuleius, Aratus, Arcesilaus, Archelaus I, Archias, Archidamus I, Archidamus II, Archidamus III, Archilochus, Archytas, Areus I, Aristides, Aristippus, Ariston, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes II, Ateas, Athenaeus, Augustus, Ausonius B Bias of Priene, Bion of Borysthenes, Brasidas, Brennus, Brutus C Caligula, Calgacus, Callicratidas, Callimachus, Carinus, Caracalla, Cassiodorus, Catiline, Cato the Elder, Catullus, Cicero, Chabrias, Charilus, Chrysippus, Claudian, Claudius, Cleomenes I, Cleomenes, Cotys I, Croesus, Cyrus the Great, Cyrus the Younger D Damindas, Damonidas, Darius I, Demades, Demaratus, Demetrius I the Besieger, Demetrius of Phalerum, Democritus, Demosthenes, Diocletian, Diogenes of Sinope, Dion, Dionysius I of Syracuse, Dionysius II of Syracuse, Dionysius the Phocaean, Diphilus, Domitian E Ecprepes, Elagabalus or Heliogabalus, Empedocles, Ennius, Epaminondas, Epictetus, Epicurus, Euclid Eudamidas I, Euripides, Eurycratidas F Fabius Maximus G Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, Gaius Marius, Gaius Popillius Laenas, Galba, Galen, Gallienus, Gelon, Geta, Glauconides, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus H Hadrian, Hannibal, Hegesippus, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hiero I, Hippocratidas, Hipponax, Homer, Horace I Iamblichus, Idanthyrsus, Isocrates, Iphicrates J Julius Caesar, Juvenal L Lamachus, Leon, Leonidas I, Leotychidas I, Leotychidas II, Livy, Longinus, Lucan, Lucian, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Lucius Accius, Lucretius, Lucullus, Lycurgus Lysander, Lysimachus M Manius Curius Dentatus, Marcus Manilius, Marcus Aurelius, Mark Anthony, Marhabal, Martial, Memnon of Rhodes, Menander, Mimnermus, Myronides N Namertes, Nero, Nicander O Orontes I, Otho, Ovid P Paedaretus, Parysatis, Panthoedas, Pausanias, Parmenides of Elea, Peisistratus, Pelopidas, Pericles, Persius, Pertinax, Petronius, Phaedrus, Philip II, Pindar, Pittacus, Plato, Plautus, Pleistoanax, Pleistarchus, Phocion, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Polybius, Polycratidas, Polydorus, Pompey, Porus, Probus, Propertius, Protagoras, Prudentius, Ptolemy I Soter, Ptolemy, Publilius Syrus, Crassus, Pyrrhus, Pythagoras, Pytheas Q Quintilian, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Quintus Lutatius Catulus S Sallust, Sappho, Semiramis, Sennacherib, Severus, Scilurus, Scipio Africanus, Scipio Africanus the Younger, Seneca the Elder, Seneca the Younger, Sidonius Apollinaris, Simonides, Socrates, Solon, Soos, Sophocles, Subrius Flavus, Sulla T Teleclus, Terence, Teres I, Tertullian, Thales, Thearidas, Themisteas, Themistocles, Theocritus, Theognis, Theophrastus, Theopompus, Thorycion, Thrasyllus, Thucydides, Tiberius, Tibullus, Timotheus, Titus, Trajan V Varro, Vegetius, Vespasian, Virgil, Vitellius, Vitruvius X Xenophanes, Xerxes Z Zeno of Elea, Zeno of Citium, Zeuxidamus, Zeuxis Elagabalus (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; c. 203 -- 11 March 222), also known as Heliogabalus, was Roman Emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan Dynasty, he was Syrian, the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. In his early youth he served as a priest of the god Elagabal (in Latin, Elagabalus) in the hometown of his mother's family, Emesa. As a private citizen, he was probably named Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus. Upon becoming emperor he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus. He was called Elagabalus only after his death. In 217, the emperor Caracalla was assassinated and replaced by his Praetorian prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. Caracalla's maternal aunt, Julia Maesa, successfully instigated a revolt among the Third Legion to have her eldest grandson (and Caracalla's cousin), Elagabalus, declared emperor in his place. Macrinus was defeated on 8 June 218, at the Battle of Antioch. Elagabalus, barely fourteen years old, became emperor, initiating a reign remembered mainly for sexual scandal and religious controversy. Wikipedia

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