I allow myself the occasional lapse. 
Gotta love raiding the various pantheons for your god's housewarming party. And didn't he marry Minerva to El Gabaal? 
I have heard stories of a giant black phallus in a temple on Palatine Hill (probably dedicated to El Gabal), the rape of a Vestal virgin in order to father a divine child, dressing up like a female prostitute and propositioning the court (with some force behind the propositioning and a soft, melting voice), and (of course) the smothering of dinner guests in tons of rose petals. As you do. Wasn't there also something about roasting people inside a metal bull?
Naturally they blamed it all on the women who had put him in power.
*MySmiley*
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Suetonius - Twelve Caesars (De Vita Caesarum)
- 02/03/2011 08:30:04 PM
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I always meant to read more of the Roman historians
- 02/03/2011 10:11:56 PM
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Had to check to make sure I was thinking of the right guy; I learned about him as "Elagabalus."
- 03/03/2011 03:33:12 AM
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Yes, his name changes a lot
- 03/03/2011 07:39:43 AM
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That semester covered most of the emperors from the end of the 3rd century to Charlemagne.
- 03/03/2011 08:59:24 AM
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The stories are legion
- 03/03/2011 09:06:26 AM
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