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Sidebottom, Harry, author.
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Elagabalus, Emperor of Rome, 204-222.
Emperors -- Rome -- Biography.
Rome -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Rome -- History -- Elagabalus, 218-222.
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The mad emperor : He...
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The mad emperor : Heliogabalus and the decadence of Rome / Harry Sidebottom.
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Sidebottom, Harry, author.
London, England : Oneworld, 2022.
Subjects
Elagabalus, Emperor of Rome, 204-222.
Emperors -- Rome -- Biography.
Rome -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Rome -- History -- Elagabalus, 218-222.
ISBN:
9780861542536 (hardcover) :
0861542533 (hardcover)
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xiv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Contents:
The revolt: Syria, May AD218 -- The backstories: Rome and Emesa, 753BC to AD218 -- The battle: Syria, May to June AD218 -- Identities and racism -- The journey: The east, summer to winter AD218 -- Power -- In Rome, AD219-21 -- Religion -- In the provinces, AD219-22 -- Sex -- Death, 26 June AD221 to 13 March AD222 -- The reckoning: 13 to 14 March AD 222 -- The afterlife of Heliogabalus: Tyrant, Aesthete, Queer Icon, Fashionista, in art criticism and as a Roman lady, AD222 to AD2022.
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"What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all. On 8 June AD218 a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious. Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next four years were to be the strangest in the history of the empire. Heliogabalus humiliated the prestigious Senators and threw extravagant dinner parties for lower-class friends. He ousted Jupiter from his summit among the gods and replaced him with Elagabal. He married a Vestal Virgin - twice. Rumours abounded that he was a prostitute. In the first biography of Heliogabalus in over half a century, Harry Sidebottom unveils the high drama of sex, religion, power and culture in Ancient Rome as we've never seen it before"--Provided by publisher
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937.07092 Elagabalus Si
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