By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 March 2026
Islamic State Attacks Al-Qaeda as a Member of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”
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Rome’s Worst Emperor? Assessing the Sources About Elagabalus
A Note on Akhenaten and Ancient Religious Revolutions
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 February 2025
The written biographies of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus (r. 218-22 AD) claim that he oversaw an effort to replace the traditional gods with the Syrian sun god of which he was the high priest, and that this was part of the reason he was overthrown. There is, however, no physical evidence for an Elagabalan religious revolution, and we have an idea of the kinds of evidence that should show up where a ruler has tried to impose a new religious dispensation and it has been rejected by his successors because we have counter-examples.
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