Author: Michael Ivanovitch RostovtzeffPublisher: Oxford : The Clarendon Press 1926.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
The Social & Economic History of the Roman Empire
Author: Michael Ivanovitch RostovtzeffPublisher: Oxford : The Clarendon Press 1926.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Varian Studies Volume Three
Author: Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y PradoPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527505170
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Heliogabalus and Elagabalus are names given since late antiquity to the mythical or legendary avatar of Varius Avitus Bassianus. Varius was Roman emperor AD 218–222, ruling as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. He was simultaneously High Priest of the Syrian sun god Elagabal. Heliogabalus and Elagabalus, names derived from Elagabal, are often used as misnomers for Varius himself, but more properly designate his avatar, who is far better known than Varius. The Varian avatar, under these and other names, survives and thrives in historiography, as well as in more avowedly creative literature, music, dance, the visual arts, and popular culture. This book, the third in Varian Studies, is partly based on the Varian Symposium, held in Cambridge in 2005. It contains studies of the historical Varius, of some of his courtiers, of his god Elagabal, and of his avatar, Heliogabalus or Elagabalus.
Studies in the Life of Heliogabalus
Author: Orma Fitch ButlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emperors
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Studies in the Greek Historians
Author: Adam ParryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521205875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A consideration of authors and historians from fifth century BC onwards who shed light on the Greek tradition of historical writing.
Varian Studies Volume One
Author: Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y PradoPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443893854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
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.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: A Study of the Life of Hadrian Prior to His Accession
Author: William Dodge GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emperors
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The Life and Work of George Sylvester Morris
Author: Robert Mark WenleyPublisher: London, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : MORRIS, GEORGE SYLVESTER,1840-1889
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The English Historical Review
Author: Mandell CreightonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description