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  - 387 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
...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...
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Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire
Book by Warwick Ball; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Rome--Civilization--Christian Influences, Rome--Civilization--Middle Eastern Influences
...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...
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The Poems of A.E. Housman
Book by Archie Burnett, A. E. Housman; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Poetry
...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...
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Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation
Book by Greg Walker; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Great Britain--History--Henry Viii, 1509-1547, Literature And State--England--History--16th Century
...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...
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Rome of the Renaissance and To-Day
Book by Rennell Rodd; Macmillan, 1932
Subjects: Rome (Italy)--Description And Travel
...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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journal articles on: Heliogabalus  - 10 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
...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...
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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...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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Monday the Herald
Journal article by John W. Frick; Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 30, 2003
Subjects: American history, Behavior, Celebrities, Culture, Musical theater, Personal appearance
...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...
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Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde
Journal article by Roger Cardinal; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 28, 1998
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...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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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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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...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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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...
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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.
...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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Death for Fun and Profit
Magazine article by John Sutherland; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Original of Laura: Dying is Fun? (Novel)--Book reviews
...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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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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Eternal Flame; Can Modern Rome Live Up to Idealised Memories of a Teenage Idyll? Sasha Slater Rekindles the Romance on a Pilgrimage to Piazza Navona
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 10, 2010
...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...
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Enjoy This Last Hurrah before the Axe Falls
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 14, 2010
...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...
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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
...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...


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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...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...
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Rulers of the Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...
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Rome , City, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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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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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Alexander Severus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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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