I’d like to ask you about your sources now, but I don’t know how not to make it sound like I don’t believe you :) I just became really interested in Elagabalwhatevertheendingofthenameis and I’d love to read some more. I know nothing about Syrian history, unfortunately.
Cassius Dio here refers to Elagabalus as ‘The False Antoninus’, ‘Avitus’, and ‘Sardanapalus’; Elagabalus was the name of the Syrian sun god they identified with.
We don’t have to make her fit into a contemporary gender model to respect her clearly stated wishes.
I’d like to ask you about your sources now, but I don’t know how not to make it sound like I don’t believe you :) I just became really interested in Elagabalwhatevertheendingofthenameis and I’d love to read some more. I know nothing about Syrian history, unfortunately.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/80*.html
Cassius Dio here refers to Elagabalus as ‘The False Antoninus’, ‘Avitus’, and ‘Sardanapalus’; Elagabalus was the name of the Syrian sun god they identified with.
Thank you. And now excuse me, I’m jumping right into this rabbit hole!