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The mad emperor : Heliogabalus and the decadence of Rome

The mad emperor : Heliogabalus and the decadence of Rome

Sidebottom, Harry, author.
Book 2022

"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...

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Elagabalus, Emperor of Rome, 204-222
Emperors Rome Biography
Rome History Elagabalus, 218-222
Rome Kings and rulers Biography
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ISBN:
9780861542536
Description:
xiv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index
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 AD222
The afterlife of Heliogabalus: Tyrant, Aesthete, Queer Icon, Fashionista, in art criticism and as a Roman lady, AD222 to AD2022
Control Number:
3219605
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