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

Icks, Martijn

 
9781848853621: The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor

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Elagablus, raised to the throne at the age of fourteen in 218 AD, and assassinated only four years later, remains among the most notorious and enigmatic of Roman Emperors. The contemporary and Byzantine sources on his reign portray a life of decadence and sexual and criminal excess, as well as religious affront to Rome's traditions.

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Martijn Icks is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany. He obtained his PhD cum laude at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 2008.

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