Why Geta?

Geta (189-212 AD) was one of the two sons of the great Roman emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled between 193-211 AD. Geta and his brother Bassianus (Caracalla) was appointed co-emperors to succeed Septimius at his death, but this had an abrupt end with the murder of Geta in 212 AD by the very same brother. According to Historia Augusta, Bassianus was insulted in the curia when Helvius Pertinax proclaimed that Geticus Maximus could be put to the rest of his titles (he had concured some of the tribes of the gothic people called the "getes", which in the circumstance also fitted well with the namne of his brother). Geta is said to have had good looks in his youth. His brother did try to erase the memory of him by the act of damnatio memoriae (destroying images of him). Bassianus himself was killed by his own guards, at a "pee break", between Carrhae and Edessa in 217 AD. Many pictures of Geta may have been destroyed in the process of damnatio memoriae, but by naming this blog after him, I simply want to commemorate this not so well known Roman Emperor (Source: Historia Augusta).