Herodian

…Dio and Herodian are fairly much in agreement that he is trained as a lawyer. And I think it's Dio who tells us that he's maybe not the most inventive legal mind out there, but he is quite diligent in his following of the law. And this seems to bring him into the orbit of the Praetorian prefect in the early 3rd century, Plotianus, infamous for his attempted…

…We have a fairly negative character portrait of Caracalla built up very early and very little is said about Geta until about midway through that contemporary account. The other source we have that is near contemporary is the author Herodian. He's probably writing a little bit further into the third century.…