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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...He was just thirteen years old. Heliogabalus was forced to accept his cousin as...relationship between the eccentric Heliogabalus and the unassuming Severus Alexander...of them would have to step aside. Heliogabalus knew he would die a violent death...
...relationship. 78 Augustan History, Heliogabalus: 275-6; Zosimus 1.11...for example, in Herodian, Heliogabalus in the Augustan History and...Victor 23, Augustan History Heliogabalus, Zosimus 1.11. 82 Indeed...
...Messrs Joseph Sawyer London . O emperor Heliogabalus was pub. by KES in More Memories , 1, with title Heliogabalus, otherwise with text identical to...writer fl. c . 100 BC . O emperor Heliogabalus 1. Heliogabalus : Roman emperor 218...
...Smyrna, is also taken from the Life of Heliogabalus in the Historia, albeit the account...1-5, pp. 126-7. During his Heliogabalus reign Zoticus had such influence that...under false pretences, he sold all Heliogabalus promises and favours, and so, as...
...The Varii, the family of the Emperor Heliogabalus, had an estate here which included...stood upon its spina . The palace of Heliogabalus seems to have covered the ground now...It is not clear why the palace of Heliogabalus was known as the Sessorium, but the...
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...particular, the passages about Caeneus and Heliogabalus suggest a different reading of "choisir." Heliogabalus is portrayed as merely attempting to...through his desire to become a woman, Heliogabalus definitely parallels the sensibility...
...most famous pictures, The Roses of Heliogabalus of 1888 (Fig. 5). Here the bizarre...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...
...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...
...mistakes or Gods jokes) have always held a fascination for man. The Roman emperors Tiberius, Augustus and the infamous Heliogabalus, allegedly owned dwarfs; monsters and other physiological anomalies appear with surprising regularity in both medical and...
...Catalan Josep Maris Junoy, not to mention the anonymous American who averred in Current Opinion in 1919 that Apollinaire was a Heliogabalus of the Intellect, a Marco Polo of the New Spirit in Art and Letters. Bohn also cites in extenso the elegies written in...
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...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...
...during the reign of the degenerate and almost insane Emperor Heliogabalus. Philostratuss dreary imagines, unreadable except by Renaissance...figures behind them are of silk, unknown in the time of Heliogabalus. Giorgiones Fete Champetre has been transformed into a drunken...
...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...
...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...
...book must be finished the other. Another possible reason for wanting the book destroyed is its libidinousness. The emperor Heliogabalus offered a prize to anyone who could invent a new vice; Nabokov could conceivably have claimed such an award. Google the...


 

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...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...
...you can hire Ferraris by the day, and they will even arrange a private tour of the Sistine Chapel for you. The Emperor Heliogabalus, renowned for his lavish tastes, who is said to have smothered guests to death at a banquet by drowning them in rose petals...
...metaphorical, as well as physical, chill winds. Luckily for me, my friends have taken a different view and are spending like Heliogabalus on his last banquet. The timing is particularly fortunate since there are a lot of 40th birthdays on the horizon. And a...
...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...
...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...


 

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HELIOGABALUS he leogab l s or Elagabalus el gab...was defeated and killed at Antioch, Heliogabalus became emperor as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus...young cousin, Alexander Severus , but Heliogabalus later tried to have the boy killed...
...with Caracalla, 211 12 Macrinus, proclaimed emperor by his soldiers, 217 18 Heliogabalus, cousin of Caracalla, 218 22 Alexander Severus, cousin of Heliogabalus, 222 35 Maximin, proclaimed emperor by soldiers, 235 38 Gordian I, made emperor...
...free men of the empire and for the famous baths named after him. Emperors succeeded one another rapidly in the 3d cent.: Heliogabalus , Alexander Severus , Philip (Philip the Arabian), and Decius among them. Decius was one of the most violent persecutors...
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...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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