# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/julia-domna
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:43.372Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 160 in Emesa to an Arab priestly family, Julia Domna married Septimius Severus in 187 when he was a provincial governor. Six years later civil war erupted; by 197 Severus had claimed the throne and Domna stood as empress, accumulating titles like "Mother of the Invincible Camps" and wielding rare political and philosophical authority. When Severus died in 211, she became the first empress dowager granted "Pia Felix Augusta" — a signal of unusual power — and tried to broker peace between her co-ruling sons Caracalla and Geta. Caracalla killed his brother within the year. She stayed at his side through the military campaigns that consumed his reign, stationed in Antioch during the Parthian war. When word reached her in 217 that Caracalla had been assassinated and the dynasty had fallen, she took her own life.