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[...] But Geta, who accepted, did not know that Caracalla had other plans. Guards jumped on him during this meeting, he took refuge in his mother's arms thinking he would find protection. He was killed and Julia was injured, but she remained close to Caracalla, as if she was under his control. In December 211, only this son remained, of whom Julia was enamored. The mother-son couple would keep the good old habits of the father, Julia would keep her political activity and follow her son in all his military expeditions. [...]
[...] The main instigator was probably Macrinus, the Praetorian prefect, who now took power. He too was a friend of Plautianus, his best friend. Julia Domna tried to change the course of events, attempting to rally the soldiers of the Praetorian army against Macrinus, but to no avail. The latter allowed Julia Domna to return to Emesa, with all her fortune. Now alone and suffering from breast cancer, she no longer fought and decided to starve herself to death. She died in 217, some time after her son Caracalla, in Antioch. [...]
[...] EMPEROR AND EMPRESS Septimius Severus was proclaimed emperor by his troops on 9 April 193 at Carnuntum, just as another civil war within the empire was coming to an end. On 9 June, he entered Rome, alongside his wife and children. Julia Domna became Augusta. In 195, she was proclaimed 'mother of the camps', mater castrorum, like another empress before her, Faustina the Younger, as she accompanied her husband on these various military campaigns, with her sons, and took an active part in the politics of the empire. In 197, the imperial family turned east to defeat the Parthians, in 199, it was Egypt's turn, until 200. [...]
[...] Julia Domna and her sons were also present during Septimius Severus' final military campaign in Britain. But, despite her important activity alongside her husband, she had to face the growing influence of a friend of Septimius Severus, who would take up more and more space alongside him and do everything to discredit the empress, even going so far as to accuse her of adultery, a certain Plautian. But, for the accusation, it would not affect the relationship between Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, as he would not really intend to. [...]
[...] PRESENTATION Julia Domna was a Roman empress from 193 to 211. She was born around 160 in Emesa in Syria and died in 217 in Antioch. 2. AT THE BEGINNING Julia Domna was a woman of royal blood. Indeed, she was a member of a family that ruled Emesa, the royal family of the Sampsigeramids, the priest-kings who ruled the city before it was annexed by the Roman Empire. Julia had a father, Julius Bassianus, a member of the Roman Arab aristocracy and high priest of the sun. [...]
