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We are proud to present our latest figure, a bust of the roman emperor Caracalla. It is 1/12 scale and consists of two resin pieces.
You can buy it here: http://www.miniaturasfortes.com/product-category/figures/
According to Herodian, “as soon as Caracalla seized power, after the death of his father, he began to make reforms in the imperial household. He ordered the killing of the doctors who had not obeyed his order of accelerating the death of his father. He also murdered his preceptors and his brother’s, because they called for concord. He left none alive of those who had served his father, or had been honored by him."
Ancient historians always emphasized the cruelty of Lucius Septimius Bassianus (born in Lugdunum, now Lyon, in the year 188 AD and died in Edessa, in the year 217) the roman emperor known as Caracalla (a name given to him for the piece of clothing from the Gaul that he introduced among the roman troops, the caracalla toga).
If something is true of his cruelty, is the fact that murdered his brother, Geta, with whom his father (Septimius Severus, founder of the Severan dynasty) had projected him to rule, sharing between them the title of emperor.
But regardless of the violence of his reign, his greatest legacy was undoubtedly the Constitutio Antoniana, enacted right after having consolidated his power as the sole emperor, in the year 212. With this edict, Caracalla granted roman citizenship to all inhabitants of the Empire, except the dediticii (barbarians). This culminated the expansion of Roman law, equating all provinces and homogenizing the world that expanded from Syria to modern England.
However, it should be noted that the granting of civil rights to such a large proportion of peoples was essentially a fiscal measure. All new citizens would have to contribute with the correspondent taxes to the imperial treasury, already suffering the effects of the ongoing military campaigns that all emperors from Marco Antonio had to carry out. These campaigns were caused by the increased pressure on the borders of the Empire by different peoples and new barbarian kingdoms, and would eventually mark the decline of the imperial administration, unable to control all of its domains and maintain unity, despite the efforts made by the edict of Caracalla.
The emperor himself fought in those borders until his death, fighting in Germany, on the Danube, Thrace and repressing the people of Alexandria. He was eventually killed in Edessa (Anatolia) by the centurion Julius Marcial in 217, in league with the Praetorian Prefect Macrinus, who entitled himself as the new emperor. The imperial usurpation would be common practice from then on, and would be one of the main characteristics of the period known as "military anarchy."
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We are proud to present our latest figure, a bust of the roman emperor Caracalla. It is 1/12 scale and consists of two resin pieces.
You can buy it here: http://www.miniaturasfortes.com/product-category/figures/
According to Herodian, “as soon as Caracalla seized power, after the death of his father, he began to make reforms in the imperial household. He ordered the killing of the doctors who had not obeyed his order of accelerating the death of his father. He also murdered his preceptors and his brother’s, because they called for concord. He left none alive of those who had served his father, or had been honored by him."
Ancient historians always emphasized the cruelty of Lucius Septimius Bassianus (born in Lugdunum, now Lyon, in the year 188 AD and died in Edessa, in the year 217) the roman emperor known as Caracalla (a name given to him for the piece of clothing from the Gaul that he introduced among the roman troops, the caracalla toga).
If something is true of his cruelty, is the fact that murdered his brother, Geta, with whom his father (Septimius Severus, founder of the Severan dynasty) had projected him to rule, sharing between them the title of emperor.
But regardless of the violence of his reign, his greatest legacy was undoubtedly the Constitutio Antoniana, enacted right after having consolidated his power as the sole emperor, in the year 212. With this edict, Caracalla granted roman citizenship to all inhabitants of the Empire, except the dediticii (barbarians). This culminated the expansion of Roman law, equating all provinces and homogenizing the world that expanded from Syria to modern England.
However, it should be noted that the granting of civil rights to such a large proportion of peoples was essentially a fiscal measure. All new citizens would have to contribute with the correspondent taxes to the imperial treasury, already suffering the effects of the ongoing military campaigns that all emperors from Marco Antonio had to carry out. These campaigns were caused by the increased pressure on the borders of the Empire by different peoples and new barbarian kingdoms, and would eventually mark the decline of the imperial administration, unable to control all of its domains and maintain unity, despite the efforts made by the edict of Caracalla.
The emperor himself fought in those borders until his death, fighting in Germany, on the Danube, Thrace and repressing the people of Alexandria. He was eventually killed in Edessa (Anatolia) by the centurion Julius Marcial in 217, in league with the Praetorian Prefect Macrinus, who entitled himself as the new emperor. The imperial usurpation would be common practice from then on, and would be one of the main characteristics of the period known as "military anarchy."
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