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Caracalla sure is mean!

yeah he really is! i mean he killed his own brother. but he got what he deserved. talk back please :)

[edit] Cloak

Is it of Gaulish or of Oriental origin?--Kwame Nkrumah 16:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Gaulic. Aaрон Кинни (t) 06:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

LOL! it's aramaic of origin (His family was oriental/Syrian). If you have any sources mentionning it is of Gualic origin, prove it.

The cloak is actually Gallic: see Aurelius Victor's Epitome de Caesaribus 21: "At cum e Gallia vestem plurimam devexisset talaresque caracallas fecisset coegissetque plebem ad se salutandum indutam talibus introire, de nomine huiusce vestis Caracalla cognominatus est." Also check out Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Caracalla.html

The sources provided for the origin of Caracalla's nickname were, well, not very helpful. The first is given as "Spartianus, Scriptores 32". Spartianus is one of the six scriptores (supposed authors) of the Historia Augusta, who supposedly wrote the biography of Caracalla which forms part of the collection - but it is possible that all six scriptores are pseudonyms of a single writer. I've found two references to Caracalla's cloak in two of the books ascribed to Spartianus, neither of which mention its country of origin, and linked them from the footnote. Secondly, "Jerome, Epistles 128". The letter in question is online in translation here, and while there's a mention of a cloak (I haven't found a Latin text, so I don't know whether it's a caracalla or not, but presumably it is), there's no mention of it being the source of the emperor's nickname, so I've deleted it as irrelevant to the discussion at hand. I've also added a reference to Cassius Dio (thanks to Bill Thayer for pointing that out). --Nicknack009 21:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caracalla, the dancers!

I was just checking if Wikipedia has any information about Caracalla, the most famous Lebanese dance group, when I found out that Caracalla is actually a Roman emperor! In fact, the Lebanese group is called after Abdel-Halim Caracalla, the founder. Isn't it a proof that the emperor was of a Syrian origin? :)

Maybe if time was flowing backwards ...

Diala, Lebanon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.98.136.35 (talk) 20:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa

I found this page by reading about the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa which reads “One of the more gruesome features of the catacombs is the Hall of Caracalla, a mass burial chamber for the humans and animals massacred by order of the Emperor Caracalla after he violated them. He was often in various orgies in 215 AD. It was placed as an addition into the original chamber on Caracalla's orders.” This page mentions nothing of this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.237.221.126 (talk) 21:53, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Im not great at editing articles but this article is extremely lacking. There is a good deal of information on his reign and very little is presented. Not even a mention of his brother Geta who became co-emporer along with Caracalla??Odin1 (talk) 15:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)