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Well, if you read his, or her, or whatever, I dunno, reputation in full... You really don't want to compare. As presented in History the Emperor of Rome had lost about all grasp on reality and was living life as an underage prostitute. This is not the example you want. To cite other reported misdeeds...
- Basically raped a vestal, which are celibate for holy reasons
- Screwed over the religious pantheon
- Dishonored the Empire to the lowest possible depths without giving a single damn about his responsibilities as Emperor. Again, was being an underage prostitute in the royal palace. Imagine the president of the USAs doing that in the White House. Yeah. People are gonna be pissed and they should be.
- Enormous and blatant nepotism in administration
Elagabalus is rated as having one of the worst, if not THE worst historical ruler reputation in the whole of human History. Reading all the contemporary reports, he was a degenerate in full, not 'degenerate' as a cute online furry meme, but actual 'needs a therapist'. If you want a historically gay person in power to refer to? Not Elagabalus. Never take Elagabalus. Never. Ever. Don't even think about it, and you basically know how it ended for him, he got stabbed by his own soldiers.
Now I know what some people are gonna say and it's gonna be "but what if this was just rumours and character assassination". Well, 'character assassination' is claimed to happen to everyone with any sort of even slight side of controversy. This is often the first line of defense of revisionists of all allegiances, saying 'actually X wasn't that bad, he didn't even order that...' and going there is just a waste of time. Historians usually do a great job and Historiography is a real, serious and very scrutinized field but the first thing you're taught in class is that a "Historical Fact" can be many things and validating sources is very hard, especially old ones when History was more a hobby than a vocation and people felt entitled to add their strawberries to the salad. Like you're calling him 'her' but you don't know if that was an invention too, maybe he wasn't even a sexual deviant, but the point is that, the historical character called Elagabalus is all these things and will keep being these things barring a completely new source with perfect credibility that will disprove it (this will never happen). Elagabalus is a terrible person in Historical records and so comparing someone to him is comparing them to the one insane ruler in the Roman Empire that was getting paid, at the age of sixteen, to have sex with strangers in brothels while trying to get the people to worship him over the rest of the religious pantheon. Also he raped a sacred vestal. And yes, he probably was a transsexual, but NOT in a way that would get anyone to see it in a good way. WHILE having the responsibility of an entire empire and the millions of people living under his authority. I don't know if any of this is actually true: but it's up in the air and that is not good. Even if it wasn't, he obviously failed to maintain a balance and keep a lid on his deviancies. The best I could assume (and honestly what I think was the *most truthful*) is that he was just a troubled kid in an ancient society, not cut out for leadershp, with primitive ignorance of psychology and that was given ultimate power over the strongest nation in the entire world at the time.
This is... The wrong choice of idol, frankly. For weirdoes in administration that dude was a disaster and associating with him gives a very bad image. On the other hand, you got people like Frederick the Great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_the_Great
Frederick III Prussia was nicknamed "The Great" for a lot of reasons, and none of them were self-aggrandizing propaganda you saw in more ancient times. Freddie was a GREAT ruler. And he had a bad case of being a big gay.
"Unusual for his time and aristocratic background, he criticized hunting as cruel, rough and uneducated"
A guy after my own heart. So he lived in the 18th century which, while better than the dark ages or ancient Rome, was still a time to get impaled for suspected sodomy. But he was an extremely competent ruler that was supported and beloved by his people, his administration and his soldiers, and he was a refined workaholic. So they didn't care event though it was known by about everyone which way he was swinging. Freddie also could keep a lid on it, so that it wasn't ostentatious and so most folks would either not have to know about it or could choose not to believe it.
He was even as close as possible to an atheist. Fancy that. The only thing you could reproach is antisemitist tendencies, after all nobody's perfect, and the conquest and exploitation of Poland, which is... Normal, for a ruler at the time.
In fact anyone had their way with Poland back then. My grandpapa was polish, so I can say it.
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