The Emperor Elagabalus | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781107687813 | The Emperor Elagabalus | Fact or Fiction? | Prado | Taschenbuch | 2014

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Beschreibung

The third-century adolescent Roman emperor miscalled Elagabalus or Heliogabalus was made into myth shortly after his murder. For 1800 years since, scandalous stories relate his alleged depravity, debauchery and bloodthirsty fanaticism as High Priest of a Syrian Sun God. From these, one cannot discern anything demonstrably true about the boy or his reign. This book, drawing on the author's detailed research and publications, investigates what can truly be known about this emperor. Through careful analysis of all sources, including historiography, coins, inscriptions, papyri, sculpture and topography, it shows that there are things of which we can be sure, and others that are likely. Through these we can reassess his reign. We discover a youth, thrust by his handlers into power on false pretences, who creates his own more authentic persona as priest-emperor, but loses the struggle for survival against rivals in his family, who justify his murder with his myth.

Über den Autor

Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado graduated from Cambridge University, and taught at Tsukuba University, Japan. He has published many articles on the Roman emperor commonly but wrongly known as Elagabalus.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Exposition; 2. Explosion; 3. Constitution; 4. Speculation; 5. Findings in Contexts; 6. Appendices.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781107687813
ISBN-10:	1107687810
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	de Arrizabalaga y. Prado, Leonardo
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y. Prado
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.07.2014
Gewicht:	0,679 kg