The Mad Emperor Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

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.

ISBN:	9780861542536
Publisher:	Oneworld Publications
Imprint:	Oneworld
Published date:	06 Oct 2022
DEWEY:	937.07092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	8479
Number of pages:	352
Weight:	508g
Height:	234mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	20mm

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