HELIOGABALUS

hēˌlēōgăbˈələs or Elagabalusĕləgăbˈələs, c.205–222, Roman emperor (218–22). He was a priest of the local sun god, Elagabalus, at Emesa and was named Varius Avitus Bassianus. He was a cousin of Caracalla; according to the claims (almost certainly false) of his ambitious mother and grandmother, he was the son of Caracalla. He was chosen by the troops in Syria as emperor in opposition to Macrinus, who had killed and succeeded Caracalla. When Macrinus was defeated and killed at Antioch, Heliogabalus became emperor as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. His reign was a tragic farce. He imported the cult of which he was priest, and Rome was shocked and disgusted by the indecency of the rites as well as by the private life of the emperor, who gave high offices to an actor, a charioteer, and a barber. His grandmother, Julia Maesa, induced him to adopt his young cousin, Alexander Severus, but Heliogabalus later tried to have the boy killed. Heliogabalus and his mother were murdered in an uprising of the Praetorian Guard. Alexander Severus succeeded.

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books on: Heliogabalus  - 380 results

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Emperors Don't Die in Bed
Book by Fik Meijer; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
...Severus: 193-211 70 Geta: 211 73 Caracalla: 211-217 74 Macrinus: 217-218 76 Heliogabalus: 218-222 78 Severus Alexander: 222-235 80 6 The soldier emperors 83 Gordian I and II...
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The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome
Book by Rodolfo Lanciani; Houghton Mifflin, 1897
Subjects: Rome (Italy)--Antiquities
...V. AEdes Romae et Veneris Temple of Venus and Rome 194 VI. Baths of Heliogabalus ? . See Ecclesia S. Caesarii in Pa latio, 169 198 VII. Turris Chartularia...
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Melville's Classical Allusions: A Comprehensive Index and Glossary
Book by Gail H. Coffler; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: Allusions--Indexes, Classical Literature--Appreciation--Indexes, Classicism--United States--History--19th Century, Greece--In Literature--Indexes, Melville, Herman--1819-1891--Knowledge--Greece--Indexes, Melville, Herman--1819-1891--Knowledge--Rome--Indexes, Mythology, Classical, In Literature--Indexes, Rome--In Literature--Indexes
...inscription , P 210 Elagabalus, see Heliogabalus Eleusinian, M 131 ; P 354...C 102 , 102 , 114 , 449 Heliogabalus Elagabalus , M 604 Hellas/Hellene...297, 362, 553 Elagabalus, see Heliogabalus Eleusinian, p. 131 Elgin...
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Freedom and Reason
Book by R. M. Hare; Clarendon Press, 1963
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The Irreverent Mr. Mencken
Book by Edgar Kemler; Little Brown, 1950
Subjects: Mencken, H. L--(Henry Louis)--1880-1956
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journal articles on: Heliogabalus  - 9 results

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The Sexual Outlaw in France, 1605
Journal article by Donald Stone Jr.; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 2, 1992
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...tapestry, scenes from the life of Heliogabalus. Prominent among these classical figures...lad Caeneus and the Roman emperor Heliogabalus deserve special mention. In the bed...31). 7 And among the scenes from Heliogabaluss life displayed in the tapestry, the...
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Lawrence Alma-tadema and the Modern City of Ancient Rome
Journal article by Elizabeth Prettejohn; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 84, 2002
Subjects: Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912), Art criticism, Art history, Roman civilization, Rome Italy, Urban areas
...most famous pictures, The Roses of Heliogabalus of 1888 (Fig. 5). Here the bizarre...depravity of the subject matter-the emperor Heliogabalus in the act of murdering his own guests...reliably inform us about the crimes of Heliogabalus or Caracalla, the cruelty of the amphitheater...
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Wordsworth's "We Are Seven" and Crabbe's the Parish Register: Poetry and Anti-Census
Journal article by Aaron Fogel; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 48, 2009
Subjects: Crabbe, George--Criticism and interpretation, Crabbe, George--Works, English poets--Criticism and interpretation, English poets--Works, The Parish Register (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, We Are Seven (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William--Works
...take seems exact. Hume mentions cobweb tonnage which--to Heliogabalus at least-signified the scale of ancient Roman population...celebrated writers," who are little better than "the emperor Heliogabalus, who formed an estimate of the immense greatness of Rome...
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How Naked Is Juliana?
Journal article by Peter Dendle; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 83, 2004
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon philology--Analysis, Nudity--Social aspects
...society--Hadrian, Trajan, Alexander Severus, and Marcus Aurelius prohibited such mixed baths, while Domitian, Gallienus, and Heliogabalus permitted them. (9) For citations see Miles 33-34; Jonathan Z. Smith, "The Garments of Shame," History of Religions 5 (1966...
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Exercises in Exorcism: The Paradoxes of Form in Artaud's Early Works
Journal article by Kimberly Jannarone; French Forum, Vol. 29, 2004
Subjects: Artaud, Antonin--Works, Essay--Criticism and interpretation, Essays--Criticism and interpretation
...identification in other works on Uccello, Abelard, the Roman emperor Heliogabalus, even Jesus Christ. Each of these men, with one foot in...Uccellos obsession with perspective, Abelards passion, Heliogabaluss hedonism--each figure was propelled by a force that shaped...
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Titian at the National Gallery
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 282, May 2003
Subjects: National Gallery (United Kingdom)--Exhibitions, Painting, Italian--Exhibitions, Painting, Renaissance--Exhibitions, Titian--Exhibitions
...during the reign of the degenerate and almost insane Emperor Heliogabalus. Philostratuss dreary imagines, unreadable except by Renaissance...half-clad figures behind them are of silk, unknown in the time of Heliogabalus. Giorgiones Fete Champetre has been transformed into a drunken...
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Why My Dog Is Not a Humanist
Magazine article by Kurt Vonnegut; The Humanist, Vol. 67, July 2007
Subjects: Humanism--Personal narratives
...Inquisition and Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible and most of the demented Roman emperors, not excepting Heliogabalus. Heliogabalus had a hollow iron bull in his banquet hall that had a door in its side. Its mouth was a hole, so sound could...
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The Poet of the Reich
Magazine article by John Simon; New Criterion, Vol. 22, October 2003
Subjects: George, Stefan--Criticism, interpretation, etc., German poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hofmannsthal, Hugo von--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rilke, Rainer Maria--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...third poetry volume, Algabal (1892), another very limited edition. Here George compares himself to the vicious Roman emperor Heliogabalus, albeit in a German avatar, as the despotic ruler of a dark underground realm made of coal, where he wishes to grow the...
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Shostakovich Henze and the Revolutionary Ideal
Magazine article; Musical Opinion, Vol. 130, September 2006
...libretto by the dramatist Edward Bond. However, other works of the period were not directly concerned with politics, such as Heliogabalus Imperator, for Orchestra; Tristan, for Piano, Orchestra and Tape; plus the Fourth and Fifth String Quartets. By the early...


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POST PUZZLER: 50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Trivia Quiz
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 5, 2006
...McCartney 34 The Humber 35 Byron 36 Chelmsford 37 The Round Table (he was Guineveres father) 38 Simply Red 39 Elagabalus or Heliogabalus 40 Mark Twain 41 Frogs 42 Strychnine 43 Cremona 44 Georgie Fame 45 Australia 46 Head 47 Studebaker 48 France 49 Dorset 50...
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CULTURE : Unsung Solomon Back on Display; Birmingham Is Hosting the First Major Exhibition for Almost a Century of a Precocious Victorian Artist Whose Career Was Ended by Homosexual Scandal Terry Grimley Reports
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 30, 2005
...of denial among contemporary viewers, though if so his falling-out with the important patron F R Leyland over his painting Heliogabalus suggests that it was wearing thin by 1869. But by the time he embarked on his most revealing series of allegorical paintings...
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A Baroque Tragedy Played for Laughs
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), June 9, 2009
Subjects: Prime ministers
...written as long ago as 1667 by Francesco Cavalli and focused on the bizarre, brief reign of the little-known Roman emperor Heliogabalus, a sex-obsessed, cross-dressing teenager who made Caligula look like a model ruler. (If only I hadnt promised not to mention...


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encyclopedia articles on: Heliogabalus  - 8 results

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Heliogabalus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HELIOGABALUS he leogab l s or Elagabalus el gab l s, c.205...When Macrinus was defeated and killed at Antioch, Heliogabalus became emperor as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. His reign...adopt his young cousin, Alexander Severus , but Heliogabalus later tried to have the boy killed. Heliogabalus and...
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Elagabalus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ELAGABALUS see Heliogabalus . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sol , in Roman Religion
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sun god. An ancient god of Mesopotamian origin, he was introduced (c.220) into Roman religion as Sol Invictus by emperor Heliogabalus. His worship remained an important cult of Rome until the rise of Christianity. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Alexander Severus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Roman emperor (222 35), b. Syria. His name was changed (221) from Alexius Bassianus when he was adopted as the successor to Heliogabalus . Although he won a triumph in a campaign (232) against Ardashir I of Persia, he could not maintain discipline among his...
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Macrinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...became the first emperor who was not a senator. He himself lost the favor of the soldiers, who revolted. He was killed, and Heliogabalus succeeded. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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