The Tragic Reign of Elagabalus

Elagabalus forced senators to watch as he fed live humans to his pet lions during dinner parties.

This teenage emperor would release venomous snakes into crowds for entertainment and suffocated dinner

guests under mountains of rose petals. He married and divorced five times before turning eighteen,

once wedding a vestal virgin which was punishable by death. His own grandmother eventually had him

assassinated at just nineteen years old. The Praetorian Guard dragged his mutilated

body through Rome's streets before dumping it in the Tiber River. Even his name was

erased from official records, attempting to delete his existence from history entirely.