Information: - Diadumenian (September 14/19, 208 218), was the son of the Roman Emperor Macrinus, and served his father briefly as Caesar (May 217218) and as Augustus (in 218). He was so named due to being born with a caul that formed a 'diadem'. - Gannys was a Roman general and eunuch who commanded the troops of Elagabalus against Emperor Macrinus in the Battle of Antioch . According to Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : '' ... Antoninus himself , who in the rest of his life never acted like a man , in this important crisis of his fate approved himself a hero , mounted his horse , and , at the head of his rallied troops , charged sword in hand among the thickest enemies ; whilst the eunuch Gannys , whose occupation had been confined to female cares and the soft luxury of Asia , displayed the talents of an able and experienced general . '' ( I , vi ) According to Dio Cassius : '' 1 . Because of his slaying at Nicomedeia at the very outset of his reign Gannys , the man who had brought about the uprising , who had taken him to the camp , who had also caused the soldiers to revolt , who had given him the victory over Macrinus , and who had been his foster - father and guardian , he was regarded as the most impious of men . 2 To be sure , Gannys was living rather luxuriously and was fond of accepting bribes , but for all that he did no one any harm and bestowed many benefits upon many people . Most of all , he showed great zeal for the emperor and was thoroughly satisfactory to Maesa and Soaemis , to the former because he had been reared by her , and to the latter because he was virtually her husband . 3 But it was not at all because of this that the emperor put him out of the way , inasmuch as he had wished to give him a marriage contract and appoint him Caesar ; it was rather because he was forced by Gannys to live temperately and prudently . And he himself was the first to give Gannys a mortal blow with his own hand , since no one of the soldiers had to take the lead in murdering him . '' - Sextus Varius Marcellus (c.165 c.215) was a Roman aristocrat and politician from the province of Syria. - Marcus Aurelius (26 April 121 17 March 180 AD) was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. Marcus Aurelius was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors. He was a practitioner of Stoicism, and his untitled writing, commonly known as the "Meditations", is the most significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy. - Macrinus ( June 218) was Roman Emperor from April 217 to 8 June 218. He reigned jointly with his young son Diadumenianus. Macrinus was by origin a Berber from Mauretania Caesariensis. A member of the equestrian class, he became the first emperor who did not hail from the senatorial class and was the first emperor from Mauretania. Before becoming emperor, Macrinus served under Emperor Caracalla as a praetorian prefect and dealt with Rome's civil affairs. He later conspired against Caracalla and had him murdered in a bid to protect his own life, succeeding him as emperor. - Caracalla (4 April 188 8 April 217), formally Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus, was Roman emperor from AD 198 to 217. A member of the Severan Dynasty, he was the eldest son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna. Caracalla reigned jointly with his father from 198 until Severus' death in 211. Caracalla then ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta, with whom he had a fraught relationship, until he had Geta murdered later that year. Caracalla's reign was marked by domestic instability and external invasions from the Germanic people. - The Severan dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 193 and 235. The dynasty was founded by the Roman general Septimius Severus, who rose to power as the victor of the 193-197 civil war. - The Roman emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period (starting in 27 BC). The emperors used a variety of different titles throughout history. Often when a given Roman is described as becoming "emperor" in English, it reflects his taking of the title "Augustus" or "Caesar". Another title often used was "imperator", originally a military honorific. Early Emperors also used the title "princeps" (first citizen). Emperors frequently amassed republican titles, notably "Princeps Senatus", "Consul" and "Pontifex Maximus". - Elagabalus , also known as Heliogabalus (203 March 11, 222), was Roman emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan dynasty, he was Syrian, the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. In his early youth he served as a priest of the god Elagabal in the hometown of his mother's family, Emesa. As a private citizen, he was probably named Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus. Upon becoming emperor he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus. He was called Elagabalus only after his death. - Julia Soaemias Bassiana (180 March 11, 222) was a Syrian noblewoman and the mother of Roman emperor Elagabalus who ruled over the Roman Empire during her son's reign. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'gannys' exhibits the relationship of 'date of death'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - 14 - 161 - 165 - 180 - 188 - 19 - 193 - 198 - 203 - 211 - 215 - 218 - 222 - 235 - 26 - 27 - 4 - 8
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218