Talk:Publius Septimius Geta
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Birthplace
There seems to be 2 accepted birth places for Geta (Rome and Milan) (google). Does anyone have a definitive source reagrding this?
- No. No one knows where Geta was born. The Historia Augusta is our source for both. In Geta 3.1 (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Geta*.html#3) Milan is given, in Sev. 4.2 (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Septimius_Severus*.html#4.2) Rome. The discrepancy is about 1500 years old. — Bill 23:14, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Deleted "reference"
"Spartianus, Caracalla, 2" is in fact a roundabout reference to the Historia Augusta; it appears to mean Chapter 2 of the Life of Caracalla, but is an old-fashioned way of referring to the Life of Geta, which has been viewed as a sort of appendage (a "chapter 2" if you will) to Caracalla. Spartianus, of course, is one of the pseudonyms of the author of the Historia Augusta. (So in fact I haven't deleted the reference at all.) — Bill 23:14, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)