Heliogabalus

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909923805

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Heliogabalus by Antonin Artaud Pdf

Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, HELIOGABALUS is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence. Reflecting its author’s preoccupations of the time with the occult, magic, Satan, and a range of esoteric religions, the book shows Artaud at his most lucid as he assembles an entire world-view from raw material of insanity, sexual obsession and anger. Artaud arranges his account of Heliogabalus’s reign around the breaking of corporeal borders and the expulsion of body fluids, often inventing incidents from the Emperor’s life in order to make more explicit his own passionate denunciations of modern existence. No reader of this, Artaud’s most inflammatory work – translated into English here for the very first time – will emerge unscathed from the experience. Translated by Alexis Lykiard and with an introduction by Stephen Barber (author and cultural historian).

Author : John Stuart Hay
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547067764

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The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus by John Stuart Hay Pdf

The life of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, generally known to the world as Heliogabalus, is as yet shrouded in impenetrable mystery. The picture we have of the reign is that of an imperial orgy—sacrilegious, necromantic, and obscene. The boy Emperor, who reigned from his fourteenth to his eighteenth year, is depicted amongst that crowd of tyrants who held the throne of Imperial Rome, with the help of the praetorian army, as one of the most tyrannical, certainly as the most debased. The present writer started this study with the view that the Syrian boy-Emperor was, in all probability, what his biographers have painted him, and what all other writers have accepted as being a substantially correct account of the absence of mind, will, policy, and authority which he was supposed to have betrayed, along with other even more reprehensible characteristics.

Author : Orma Fitch Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Emperors
ISBN : MINN:319510023200707

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Studies in the Life of Heliogabalus by Orma Fitch Butler Pdf

Author : Harry Sidebottom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861542543

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The Mad Emperor by Harry Sidebottom Pdf

'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times A Financial Times, BBC History and Spectator Book of the Year On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious. Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next four years were to be the strangest in the history of the empire. Heliogabalus humiliated the prestigious Senators and threw extravagant dinner parties for lower-class friends. He ousted Jupiter from his summit among the gods and replaced him with Elagabal. He married a Vestal Virgin – twice. Rumours abounded that he was a prostitute. In the first biography of Heliogabalus in over half a century, Harry Sidebottom unveils the high drama of sex, religion, power and culture in Ancient Rome as we’ve never seen it before.

Author : Henry Louis Mencken,George Jean Nathan
Publisher : New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015014509320

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Heliogabalus by Henry Louis Mencken,George Jean Nathan Pdf

Author : Henry Arthur Sanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Mythology, Roman
ISBN : IOWA:31858049891181

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Roman History and Mythology: Studies in the life of Heliogabalus. By O. F. Butler by Henry Arthur Sanders Pdf

Author : Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521895552

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The Emperor Elagabalus by Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado Pdf

The first study to subject the life and reign of the so-called Emperor Elagabalus to a thorough historical investigation.

Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : World history
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59884517

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Illustrated Universal History by Israel Smith Clare Pdf

Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89099954729

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The Centennial Universal History by Israel Smith Clare Pdf

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714548936

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Heliogabalus, Or the Anarchist Crowned by Antonin Artaud Pdf

From his birth in a cradle of sperm to his death on a blood-soaked pillow, Heliogabalus, Emperor from the age of fourteen, embodies the depravity and decay of Rome in the third century. Although steeped in vice and tormented by madness, the deviant tyrant is elevated to a divine status, at the crossroads between the Greco-Latin world and the Orient.Considered one of the most accomplished and accessible of Artaud's works, while also one of his most imaginative, Heliogabalus, or The Anarchist Crowned is a hallucinatory, surreal depiction of a historical figure, as well as a revolutionary founding text from the father of the Theatre of Cruelty.

Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909923591

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CALIGULA: DIVINE CARNAGE by Stephen Barber Pdf

Caligula: most notorious of the Roman Emperors, who seduced his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, married a prostitute, tortured and killed hundreds of innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy. Award-winning writer Stephen Barber documents in full the atrocities of Caligula, and also the other mad Emperors, notably the deranged Commodus. Also included is a bloody history of Gladiators and the Roman Arena, the depraved circus where Christians, freaks and criminals were butchered by the thousand. DIVINE CARNAGE is a shocking catalogue of incest, transvestism, torture, slaughter and perversity brought to life by Barber’s superb authorial skill, making it an essential and eloquent document of murderous decadence. This special ebook edition also includes the bonus of Suetonius’ “Life Of Nero”, highlighting the outrages of yet another sadistic Emperor, whose greatest pleasure lay in the crucifixion and burning of Christian martyrs.

Author : Martijn Icks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857720177

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The Crimes of Elagabalus by Martijn Icks Pdf

Elagabalus was one of the most notorious of Rome's 'bad emperors': a sexually-depraved and eccentric hedonist who in his short and riotous reign made unprecedented changes to Roman state religion and defied all taboos. An oriental boy-priest from Syria - aged just fourteen when he was elevated to power in 218 CE - he placed the sun god El-Gabal at the head of the established Roman pantheon, engaged in orgiastic rituals, took male and female lovers, wore feminine dress and was alleged to have prostituted himself in taverns and even inside the imperial palace. Since his assassination by the Praetorian Guard at the age of eighteen, Elagabalus has been an object of fascination to historians and a source of inspiration for artists and writers. This immensely readable book examines the life of one of the Roman Empire's most colourful figures, and charts the many guises of his legacy: from evil tyrant to firebrand rebel, from mystical androgyne to modern gay teenager, from decadent sensualist to ancient pop star.

Author : Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443893855

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Varian Studies Volume One by Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado Pdf

Varius is the nomen of the Roman emperor misnamed Elagabalus or Heliogabalus. These are names of the Syrian sun god Elagabal, whose high priest Varius was while emperor. There is no evidence that he was ever so called when alive. Thus named, his posthumous legendary or mythical avatar thrives, in academic prose and popular imagination, as a Semitic monster of cruelty, depravity, fanaticism, mockery and extravagance. Recently, this monster has metamorphosed into an anarchist saint and martyr of gay liberation. This volume explores the historical individual behind Elagabalus and Heliogabalus. Varius was probably born AD 204 in Rome, to Syro-Roman parents linked to the Severan dynasty, and brought up at the imperial court, which spent 208–211 in Britain. After his father’s death in Numidia or Italy, sometime between 214 and 218 Varius went to Syria, where, like a maternal ancestor, he became a priest of Elagabal. In Syria in 217, Macrinus murdered and succeeded the Severan emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, even then known by his nickname, Caracalla. In 218, in a coup against Macrinus, Varius, fourteen, was proclaimed emperor, on the basis of the lie, launched by his grandmother, Caracalla’s aunt, and abetted by his mother, Caracalla’s cousin, that he was Caracalla’s bastard. Varius’ grandmother intended to rule while he reigned. But Varius, now Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, had other ideas. Taking the god Elagabal, a meteorite, to Rome he sought to combine the incompatible personae of Roman emperor and High Priest of Elagabal. He was murdered in 222 before reaching eighteen by his praetorian guards, under the orders of his grandmother and aunt, to make way for his younger, more docile cousin, Alexianus, who reigned as Severus Alexander. Rhetorical invective against Varius was promptly launched to justify his murder. It grew into his mythical or legendary avatar: Elagabalus or Heliogabalus. That avatar came completely to overshadow the historical Varius. This book serves to rescue Varius for history from eighteen centuries spent in fantasy and fiction.

Author : American Numismatic Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Numismatics
ISBN : UOM:39015082079826

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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by American Numismatic Society Pdf

Include Annual address of the president.

Author : American Numismatic Society (1907- )
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Numismatics
ISBN : UCAL:$C144605

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Proceedings of the American Numismatic Society, Annual Meeting by American Numismatic Society (1907- ) Pdf