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

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

Martijn Icks

276 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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The four short years of Elagabalus's 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. Here, Martijn Icks succeeds in distinguishing t...

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