Elagabalus

Author : Martijn Icks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857720171
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crimes of Elagabalus written by Martijn Icks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elagabalus was one of the most notorious of Rome's 'bad emperors': a sexually-depraved and eccentric hedonist who in his short and riotous reign made unprecedented changes to Roman state religion and defied all taboos. An oriental boy-priest from Syria - aged just fourteen when he was elevated to power in 218 CE - he placed the sun god El-Gabal at the head of the established Roman pantheon, engaged in orgiastic rituals, took male and female lovers, wore feminine dress and was alleged to have prostituted himself in taverns and even inside the imperial palace. Since his assassination by the Praetorian Guard at the age of eighteen, Elagabalus has been an object of fascination to historians and a source of inspiration for artists and writers. This immensely readable book examines the life of one of the Roman Empire's most colourful figures, and charts the many guises of his legacy: from evil tyrant to firebrand rebel, from mystical androgyne to modern gay teenager, from decadent sensualist to ancient pop star.

Author : Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895553
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor Elagabalus written by Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to subject the life and reign of the so-called Emperor Elagabalus to a thorough historical investigation.

Author : Darrell L. Minor
Publisher : Darrell L. Minor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elagabalus written by Darrell L. Minor and published by Darrell L. Minor. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the backdrop of 3rd century Rome, a time of turmoil and decay, the empire finds itself on the brink of collapse. The social fabric is unraveling, and the once thriving economy is now in shambles. However, amidst this bleak scenario, a young and inexperienced fourteen-year-old boy named Varius Avitus Bassianus unexpectedly ascends to the throne. Known to history as Emperor Elagabalus, his reign is marked by controversy and scandal, leaving a lasting impact on the Roman senate and the empire as a whole. In this alternate historical drama, the narrative delves into the first four years of Varius's reign, presenting a different turn of events. The young emperor's life becomes a battleground, not only against the crumbling state of the empire but also against his own power-hungry grandmother, Julia Maesa. As Varius grapples with the challenges of governance, he finds himself entangled in a fierce struggle for control and influence with his grandmother, who seeks to manipulate him for her own gain. Alongside the political power struggle, Varius also faces the consequences of his personal choices and secrets. This alternate narrative sheds light on the hidden aspects of his life, exploring the scandals and controversies that surround him. From his religious background to his unconventional sexual preferences, each passing day on the throne further fuels the growing animosity of the Roman senate and the empire towards their young emperor. As the story unfolds, the audience witnesses the complex web of intrigue, power dynamics, and personal struggles that shape Varius's reign, offering a fresh perspective on this tumultuous period in Roman history.

Author : Andrew G. Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190879599
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emperors and Usurpers written by Andrew G. Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A. D. 217. to the reign of Severus Alexander and Cassius Dio's retirement from political life in 229. Cassius Dio, a Roman Senator, provides a valuable eyewitness account of this turbulent period, which was marked by the assassination of Caracalla, the rise of Macrinus, Rome's first equestrian emperor, and his subsequent overthrow, the tempestuous, and by all accounts peculiar, reign of Elagabalus, and the continuation of the Severan dynasty under the young Severus Alexander. In addition to elucidating important passages from these books, this study assesses Cassius Dio's political life and its relationship to his literary career; his call to history and time of composition; his historical method; and his attitude toward and subsequent presentation of the later Severan dynasty. In its investigation of books 79(78)-80(80), the work assesses an important stretch of Dio's actual text, which for other parts has been preserved largely in epitome and excerpts. Finally, the work aims to fill a gap in scholarship, as no commentary on these books of Cassius Dio's history has been produced since the nineteenth century, and its publication coincides with a renewed interest in the history and historiography of the Severan period.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335315
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician brings together case studies that highlight various aspects of Cassius Dio’s Roman History. It puts emphasis on Dio’s text in its historiographical setting, thus allowing us to link and understand the different parts of his work.

Author : John Stuart Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus written by John Stuart Hay and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Sidebottom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861542541
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mad Emperor written by Harry Sidebottom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times A Financial Times, BBC History and Spectator Book of the Year On 8 June 218 AD, 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.

Author : Adam Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521205875
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Greek Historians written by Adam Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-09-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consideration of authors and historians from fifth century BC onwards who shed light on the Greek tradition of historical writing.

Author : Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893854
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varian Studies Volume One written by Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varius is the nomen of the Roman emperor misnamed Elagabalus or Heliogabalus. These are names of the Syrian sun god Elagabal, whose high priest Varius was while emperor. There is no evidence that he was ever so called when alive. Thus named, his posthumous legendary or mythical avatar thrives, in academic prose and popular imagination, as a Semitic monster of cruelty, depravity, fanaticism, mockery and extravagance. Recently, this monster has metamorphosed into an anarchist saint and martyr of gay liberation. This volume explores the historical individual behind Elagabalus and Heliogabalus. Varius was probably born AD 204 in Rome, to Syro-Roman parents linked to the Severan dynasty, and brought up at the imperial court, which spent 208–211 in Britain. After his father’s death in Numidia or Italy, sometime between 214 and 218 Varius went to Syria, where, like a maternal ancestor, he became a priest of Elagabal. In Syria in 217, Macrinus murdered and succeeded the Severan emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, even then known by his nickname, Caracalla. In 218, in a coup against Macrinus, Varius, fourteen, was proclaimed emperor, on the basis of the lie, launched by his grandmother, Caracalla’s aunt, and abetted by his mother, Caracalla’s cousin, that he was Caracalla’s bastard. Varius’ grandmother intended to rule while he reigned. But Varius, now Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, had other ideas. Taking the god Elagabal, a meteorite, to Rome he sought to combine the incompatible personae of Roman emperor and High Priest of Elagabal. He was murdered in 222 before reaching eighteen by his praetorian guards, under the orders of his grandmother and aunt, to make way for his younger, more docile cousin, Alexianus, who reigned as Severus Alexander. Rhetorical invective against Varius was promptly launched to justify his murder. It grew into his mythical or legendary avatar: Elagabalus or Heliogabalus. That avatar came completely to overshadow the historical Varius. This book serves to rescue Varius for history from eighteen centuries spent in fantasy and fiction.

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 190992380X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heliogabalus written by Antonin Artaud and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, HELIOGABALUS is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence. Reflecting its author’s preoccupations of the time with the occult, magic, Satan, and a range of esoteric religions, the book shows Artaud at his most lucid as he assembles an entire world-view from raw material of insanity, sexual obsession and anger. Artaud arranges his account of Heliogabalus’s reign around the breaking of corporeal borders and the expulsion of body fluids, often inventing incidents from the Emperor’s life in order to make more explicit his own passionate denunciations of modern existence. No reader of this, Artaud’s most inflammatory work – translated into English here for the very first time – will emerge unscathed from the experience. Translated by Alexis Lykiard and with an introduction by Stephen Barber (author and cultural historian).