Editing Caracalla (section)

== Names ==
Caracalla's name at birth was Lucius [[Septimia gens|Septimius]] Bassianus. He was renamed Marcus Aurelius Antoninus at the age of seven as part of his father's attempt at union with the families of [[Antoninus Pius]] and [[Marcus Aurelius]].<ref name=":20" /><ref>{{cite book|last1=Tabbernee|first1=William|last2=Lampe|first2=Peter|title=Pepouza and Tymion: The Discovery and Archaeological Exploration of a Lost Ancient City and an Imperial Estate|date=2008|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-020859-7}}</ref>{{sfn|Hammond|1957|pp=35–36}} According to the 4th-century historian [[Aurelius Victor]] in his ''Epitome de Caesaribus'', he became known by the [[agnomen]] "Caracalla" after a [[Gaul|Gallic]] hooded tunic that he habitually wore and made fashionable.{{sfn|Dunstan|2011|pp=405–406}} He may have begun wearing it during his campaigns on the Rhine and Danube.{{sfn|Goldsworthy|2009|page=[https://archive.org/details/howromefelldeath0000gold/page/74 74]}} [[Cassius Dio]], who was still writing his ''Historia romana'' during Caracalla's reign,<ref>{{cite book |last=Swan |first=Michael Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=26s6CG8LffsC |title=The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-516774-0 |pages=1–3, 30}}</ref> generally referred to him as "Tarautas", after a famously diminutive and violent [[gladiator]] of the time, though he also calls him "Caracallus" on various occasions.<ref>[[Cassius Dio]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/79*.html Book 79]</ref>

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