#caracalla

literalmente hasta Geta se sorprendió cuando Caracalla le dijo a Lalisa que lo tomara como esposo ,aunque no faltaba el que decia que ella se caso con el por dinero y lujos,aunque ella se caso por amor y no solo por los lujos

y claro,eso siempre fue lo que mas anhelaba Caracalla desde que la conoció,hacerla su esposa fue mas que un placer para el

aunque claro,una realidad que solo pocos saben(Lucila y tal vez Acasio) es que los sentimientos que tiene Lalisa no se igualan con los de Caracalla,al contrario,los sentimientos de Caracalla son muchisimo mas potentes que los de Lalisa

Literally, even Geta was surprised when Caracalla asked Lalisa to become his wife—though there were certainly those who claimed she married him for money and luxury, when in fact she married for love, not just for the trappings of wealth😭

And of course, that was what Caracalla had longed for most ever since he first met her; making her his wife was more than just a pleasure for him

SINGLE ROUND OF APPLAUSE... SHE DESERVES THE ENTIRE COLOSSEUM APPLAUDING HER

I mean... ¿¿HOW DID SHE MANAGE TO PUT UP WITH CARACALLA AND EVEN MARRY HIM?? I truly admire her😭

The address was a small apartment building on a quiet street near Dupont Circle, and Siegel dove into the lobby, in out of the rain, clutching the fifth of scotch he was carrying as if it were a state secret. There had been times – during the past year, in the Avenue Kleber or the Viale delle Terme di Caracalla – where there had been a brief case where the fifth was now, clutched under the same tweed-clad arm against rain or a deadline or some bureaucratic necessity. And most of these times, especially if he were hung over from the night before, or if a girl fellow junior diplomats had sworn was a sure thing had turned out to be so much more than sure that in the end it had not been worth even the price of drinks, he would shake his head like a drunk who is trying to stop seeing double, having become suddenly conscious of the weight of the briefcase and the insignificance of its contents and the stupidity of what he was doing out here, away from Rachel, following an obscure but clearly-marked path through a jungle of distrainments and affadavits and depositions; wondering why, in his first days with the Commission, he should have ever regarded himself as any kind of healer when he had always known that for a healer – a prophet actually, because if you cared about it at all you had to be both – there is no question of balance sheets or legal complexity, and the minute you become involved with anything like that you are something less; a doctor, or a fortune-teller. 

—Thomas Pynchon, from “Mortality and Mercy in Vienna”

The death of the Roman Emperor Caracalla, assassinated near Harran on April 8, 217, with a sword, by Martialis, one of the officers of his close guard (Illustration by Tancredi Scarpelli)

The Baths at Caracalla (1899) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Alma Tadema, Caracalla Bathes, New York Tribune May 18, 1919

Emily in Paris S2E3 - Hammam les Cent Ciels - not pictured

We also find how alone the Roman feels, a quality of his soul that is apt to be overlooked. How do the deeds of a Caracalla or anyone else accord with the discovery of right for the good of humanity? We tend to forget that these Romans combined their sense of right and their self-control with a terrible slavery to which they subjected their colonies and the peoples they conquered. Looking at Rome from this standpoint for once, we see that we must not correct the facts, but rather many of the feelings we have acquired in our study of Roman history. If one were looking at the matter in such a way that one was biased by the too frequent sympathies and antipathies that prevail today, one might ask, “Did not the Romans later give Roman citizenship to their colonials?” Now, however, if you look at the motive behind this, you will see it in another light. It was Caracalla who did this, and he was not a man to whom one could attribute selfless motives. He was a man of characteristically Roman egoism. That says enough about the soul's life in ancient time. There were, of course, upright lawyers who devoted themselves to jurisprudence with all their souls. Papinian, for instance, was a noble man, but Caracalla had him murdered. One could go on to present many such examples that could correct our usual feelings.

—Rudolf Steiner, Inner Impulses of Evolution: Lecture I

What film genre do you think would be Caracalla’s favorite?🧑🏻‍🦰👑🐒