I'm almost coming round to the view that we need a spell of the Greens in government to educate the electorate. I'm just not entirely sure that, on top of the economic shocks the country ha… (View Post)

Sure, which is fine. It's just not particularly good history. (View Post)

...The debate over Elagabalus's gender identity is long-standing and often splits academics. Dr Shushma Malik, a Cambridge university classics professor, told the BBC: "The historians we us… (View Post)

Alternatively. "You know who else built a bunker under his ballroom, and planned a massive triumphal arch commemorating himself ?" (View Post)

Doesn't really fit at all - way too young; a teenager; and discredited after he died (fairly likely exaggeration and/or lies). The older, senile Tiberius is a better fit, as is the delusional sh… (View Post)