The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus
Synopsis
The life of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, generally known to the world as Heliogabalus, is as yet shrouded in impenetrable mystery. The picture we have of the reign is that of an imperial orgy—sacrilegious, necromantic, and obscene. The boy Emperor, who reigned from his fourteenth to his eighteenth year, is depicted amongst that crowd of tyrants who held the throne of Imperial Rome, by the help of the praetorian army, as one of the most tyrannical, certainly as the most debased...
- Copyright:
- 2016 John Hay
Book Details
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781531285739
- Publisher:
- Ozymandias Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2018-02-26T21:52:30Z
- Language:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.