tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650991216932320512.post5669258120987073045..comments2024-01-08T02:39:48.429-05:00Comments on Writing the Past: Midnight in HistoryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17461952469118723268noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650991216932320512.post-12905162602608969082012-09-07T02:35:44.125-04:002012-09-07T02:35:44.125-04:00Hi. I'm intrigued by your enthusiams regarding...Hi. I'm intrigued by your enthusiams regarding the amazing empress, Julia Domna. I have spent a multitude of hours pouring over accounts of her life and fact-checking them. I feel I know her well.<br /><br />You ask, "What went wrong with Caracalla?" Well, some things went wrong, and other things were unfortunate realities of the time. For one, he was jealous of his mom's intellectual connection with Geta. A bond he would never understand. It didn't mean he was less loved, but that Geta and Julia were more alike as was Caracalla and Septimius. I think also that Caracalla had an ego complex, and sometimes boasted he was the reincarnation of Alex the Great. He was not. He did lead military accomplishments after Septimius' death, but he was not an Alex the Great. He did have a temper and was prone to thinking strategically only. To do his brother in and in his mother's lap was nothing for him. He saw it as a pawn being moved in a chess game. He loved his mom and dad and brother but was always feeling inadequate and tried to compensate. He chose to win the full throne after his dad died at all costs. I suspect he felt less loved by Julia than Geta. This is not true. She just had more in common with her intellectual younger son, Geta. But Caracalla, like I said, I suspect was jealous.Erikahttps://facebook.com/EoceneMedianoreply@blogger.com