The Crimes of Elagabalus : The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor

ISBN-13: 9781780765501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str.

Martijn Icks

Opis

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. This book examines the life of one of the Roman Empire's most colourful figures, and charts the many guises of his legacy.

Spis treści

IntroductionChapter 1: The boy on the throne Chapter 2: The child priest from EmesaChapter 3: The invincible priest-emperorChapter 4: The rejected rulerChapter 5: The evil tyrantChapter 6: The decadent emperorChapter 7: The modern princeEpilogueThe Nachleben of Elagabalus in art and literature: an overviewSeveran family treeNotesSelect bibliographyIndex

O autorze

Martijn Icks is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany. He obtained his PhD cum laude at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 2008.