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Roman Eastern Foederati and Arab Monotheism Before Islam

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 July 2025

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This entry was posted in History of Islam and tagged Alexander Severus, amici populi Romani, Arabia Petraea, Arabs, ascetics, Aurelian, Balkans, Battle of Adrianople, Bosra, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Chalcedonian, Christianisation, Christianity, Christians, cives, Constantine, Constantine the Great, Council of Chalcedon, Diocletian, Dumat al-Jandal, Eastern Roman Empire, Elagabalus, Emessa, Ethiopia, Fertile Crescent, foederati, Germanic peoples, Germans, Germany, Ghassanids, God, Gothic War, Goths, Great War, Hegra, heresy, Hijaz, Himyar, holy man, Homs, Ioudaismos, Irfan Shahid, Islam, Jerusalem, Jews, Judaism, Kindites, Lakhmid Kingdom, Lakhmids, Late Antiquity, Levant, Limes Orientalis, limitrophe provinces, loca sancta, Marcus Julius Philippus, Mavia, Mawiyya, Mesopotamia, monastics, monks, Monophysites, Monophysitism, Moses, Nabatean Kingdom, Nabateans, Najran, Negev, Nicene Creed, Oriens, orthodoxy, paganism, pagans, Palaestina, Palestine, Palmyra, Palmyrene Empire, Palmyrenes, Persia, Persian Empire, Philip the Arab, plague, Qaryat al-Faw, Queen of the Tanukh, Qur’an, Rhine, Romaioi, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Romanisation, Romanitas, Romans, Saint Simeon, Salihids, Sasanians, Semitic people, Severus Alexander, Sinai, Syria, Tanukhids, Theodosius I, Valens, Western Roman Empire, Yemen on July 5, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Rome’s Worst Emperor? Assessing the Sources About Elagabalus

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 February 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Aelius Lampridius, Alexander Severus, Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Annia Faustina, Antoninus Pius, Apis, Apollo, Aquilia Severa, Arbela, archaeology, Armenia, Artabanus IV, Arval Brethren, Arval Brotherhood, Arval Brothers, Assyrian Empire, Assyrians, Augustan History, Augustus, Aurelian, Aurelius Eubulus, Aurelius Zoticus, Aventine Hill, Ba’al, Babylonian Empire, Babylonians, Baetyl, Baths of Caracalla, Black Stone, Caligula, Caracalla, Carrhae, Cassius Dio, Christianity, Christians, Chronographia, Claudius, Claudius Gothicus, Cleopatra VII, Clodius Albinus, coins, Colossus of Nero, Commodus, Constantine, Constitutio Antoniniana, Crisis of the Third Century, cruelty, cultic practices, cults, Cybele, damnatio memoriae, dediticii, Diadumenian, Dictator Perpetuo, Diocletian, Dionysus, Dominate, Domitius Ulpianus, Edward Gibbon, Egypt, Elagabal, Elagabalium, Elagabalus, Emesa, Emesene dynasty, eques, equestrians, Erbil, Five Good Emperors, foreigners, Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Gaius Julius Alexion, Gaius Julius Avitus Alexianus, Galba, galli, Gannys, Gaul, Gladiator (2000), Great Mother, Greek, Hadrian, Harran, Heliogabalus, Hellenism, Hercules, Herodian, Hierocles, Historia Augusta, Historia Romana, History, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus, homosexuality, Imperial History, inscriptions, ISIS, Islam, John Malalas, Julia Avita Mamaea, Julia Cornelia Paula, Julia Domna, Julia Maesa, Julia Soaemias Bassiana, Julius Bassianus, Julius Caesar, Jupiter, Justin Martialis, King Sohaemus, Latin, liberti, Lord Macaulay, Lucius Septimius Bassianus, Macrinus, Magna Mater, Marcus Aemilius, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar, Marcus Aurelius Cleander, Marcus Macrinus, Mark Antony, Mars, Mars the Avenger, Mary Beard, Maximian, Maximinus Thrax, Memphis, Milvian Bridge, Mithras, moon god, Nero, Octavian, Osiris, Osiris-Apis, Osorapis, Osrhoene, paganism, pagans, Palatine Hill, pantheon, Parthians, patricians, peregrini, Perpetual Dictator, Pharaonic Egypt, plague, plebians, Pompey, Pompey Magnus, Pompey the Great, Praetorians, prejudice, Princeps Civitatis, Principate, Probus, provincials, Ptah, Ptolemies, Ptolemy I Soter, Ptolemy III, Publius Geta, Publius Valerius Comazon, res publica, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Romanitas, Romans, Sampsigeramid dynasty, Saqqara, Sardanapalus, Sasanians, Sassanians, Saturn, scandal, Senate, Septimius Severus, Serapeum, Serapio, Serapis, Severus Alexander, Sin, slavery, slaves, Sohaemus, Sol Invictus, Sophene, stereotypes, Suetonius, sun god, syncretic god, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Theodosius I, Third Gallic Legion, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Tiberinus, Trajan, transgender, Ulpius Julianus, Unconquered Sun, Varius Avitus Bassianus, Vespasian, Vestal Virgin, York on February 7, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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