Caracalla, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Emperor of Ancient Rome
Date of Birth: 04-Apr-0188
Place of Birth: Lugdunum, praetorian prefecture of Gaul
Date of Death: 08-Apr-0217
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Caracalla
- Caracalla ( KARR-?-KAL-?; Latin: Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus; 4 April 188 – 8 April 217), formally known as Antoninus (Ancient Greek: ??t??????), ruled as Roman emperor from 198 to 217 AD.
- He was a member of the Severan dynasty, the elder son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna.
- Co-ruler with his father from 198, he continued to rule with his brother Geta, emperor from 209, after their father's death in 211.
- He had his brother killed later that year, and reigned afterwards as sole ruler of the Roman Empire.
- Caracalla's reign featured domestic instability and external invasions by the Germanic peoples. Caracalla's reign became notable for the Antonine Constitution (Latin: Constitutio Antoniniana), also known as the Edict of Caracalla, which granted Roman citizenship to all free men throughout the Roman Empire.
- The edict gave all the enfranchised men Caracalla's adopted praenomen and nomen: "Marcus Aurelius".
- Domestically, Caracalla became known for the construction of the Baths of Caracalla, which became the second-largest baths in Rome; for the introduction of a new Roman currency named the antoninianus, a sort of double denarius; and for the massacres he enacted against the people of Rome and elsewhere in the empire.
- In 216, Caracalla began a campaign against the Parthian Empire.
- He did not see this campaign through to completion due to his assassination by a disaffected soldier in 217.
- Macrinus succeeded him as emperor three days later. The ancient sources portray Caracalla as a tyrant and as a cruel leader, an image that has survived into modernity.
- Dio Cassius (c.
- 155 – c.
- 235) and Herodian (c.
- 170 – c.
- 240) present Caracalla as a soldier first and as an emperor second.
- In the 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth started the legend of Caracalla's role as the king of Britain.
- Later, in the 18th century, the works of French painters revived images of Caracalla due to apparent parallels between Caracalla's tyranny and that ascribed to Louis XVI of France (r.
- 1774–1792).
- Modern works continue to portray Caracalla as an evil ruler, painting him as one of the most tyrannical of all Roman emperors.
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