AQUILIA SEVERA
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Vestal Virgins were required by law to be celibate – they took solemn vows to the goddess Vesta and punishments for breaking their chastity were severe. But that didn’t stop Emperor Elagabalus from trying to marry the Vestal Maxima, Aquilia Severa, in 220 CE. The ruler’s reasoning to Senate was that they would have divine children, and he took it further in his madness by trying to remove the Roman pantheon of gods – instead, the people would worship him and his divine bride.
One of Julia’s affairs was with Jullus Antonius, which was politically dangerous for Augustus