Caracalla and the Great General

Caracalla wanted to be seen very much as a second alexander. This was something that many roman emperors had imagined themselves as being. He even promoted macedonians so for example, he came across an equestrian tribune called domitius antigonus,. whose father was called philip, like alexalexander's fathery. And so he made him a senator. These are the kind of things which rankled with some like cassius dyo and other conservative senators because it's its favoritism. But it's also part of this alexander meglamania.