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The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes ~ The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes Decadent Boy Emperor 9780674064379 Martijn Icks Books

The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes ~ Its interesting that Harvard University Press has chosen to republish under the far more provocative title The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes Decadent Boy Emperor a string of nouns and adjectives so prurient its probably a bit embarrassing to the author But hopefully this title will sell more copies

Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes ~ Its interesting that Harvard University Press has chosen to republish under the far more provocative title The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes Decadent Boy Emperor a string of nouns and adjectives so prurient its probably a bit embarrassing to the author But hopefully this title will sell more copies

The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes ~ The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes Decadent Boy Emperor The four short years of Elagabaluss rule have generated nearly two millennia of sustained attention from salacious rumor to scholarly analysis to novels that cast him as a gay hero avant la lettre

The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes ~ Still priest of Emesas god whose realm included mountains and the sun he assumed a theophoric name Elagabalus or Heliogabalus The emperor aroused resistance when he reportedly flaunted exuberant sexual behavior in public and when he brought Elagabals black rock to Rome planning to exalt the god over traditional Roman deities

The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes ~ The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes Decadent Boy Emperor This is a serious stimulating study of Elagabalus also known as Heliogabalus who should be ranked with the likes of Nero and Caligula in the Roman notoriety stakes

The boy on the throne The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life ~ Setting out from Nicomedia Elagabalus and his family travelled through Thrace Moesia and both the Pannonian provinces finally reaching Rome in the summer of 219 The exact date of their arrival is unknown but Eutropius remarks that the emperor ruled in Rome for two years and eight months

The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes ~ The Crimes of Elagabalus The Life and Legacy of Romes Decadent Boy Emperor This book examines the life of one of the Roman Empires most colourful figures Elagabalus 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

The Crimes of Elagabalus — Martijn Icks Harvard ~ In 219 CE when the fourteenyearold Syrian arrived in Rome to assume the throne he brought with him a conical black stone which he declared was the earthly form of the sun god ElGabal who gave Elagabalus his name and lifelong office as high priest Shoving Jupiter aside the new emperor did the unthinkable