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Episode CXV - Ausonian Beast (Caracalla III)

Emperors of Rome

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Caracala Sacrificing the Alexandrians

This is the scale of massacre, though, that an army would do to an enemy's city. But its interesting caracala sourt hof liked people fearing him. An oracle at pergamum in asia minor hailed him as the ausonian beast. This was not something that the roman senate would have been on board with. He wrote to the senate saying, matter who i've killed, this is retribution for what they've done to me.

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