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Relating to public figures or personalities, celebrities or otherwise, who have made significant progress in their particular professional field, or who have helped or influenced wider society to an outstanding degree.

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Elagabalus

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Elagabalus was born as Varius Avitus Bassianus but called himself Elagablus after an eastern Sun God which he thought himself to be. Elagabalus immersed himself in self-worship, ...

Macrinius

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Macrinius was born in North Africa and had a reputation for being a sensible and experienced administrator. However, he made the fatal mistake of embarrassing the eastern legions ...

Caracalla

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Caracalla's reign was marked by two notable incidents. The so-called "Antoninian Constitution" gave Roman citizenship to all free people of the provinces. This was a trend that ...

Severus

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Severus's first course of action was to disband the Praetorian Guard and replace it with 15,000 Danubian legionnaires loyal to him. Then he set out to deal with Gaius Pescennius ...

Julianus

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After hearing news that of Julianus had purchased the principate, two legates Severus and Niger immediately revolted. Plubius Septimius Severus being the closest to Rome, marched ...

Pertinax

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After Commodus was strangled to death by his personal wrestler, the power of the principate was shifted to an elderly senator named Publius Helvius Pertinax. Although the ...

Commodus

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The future Roman emperor Commodus was born 161 AD to the emperor Marcus Aurelius and Faustina. As a boy, Commodus went with his father on his military expeditions to the Rhine and ...