📗 Libro en inglés THE MAD EMPEROR

What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome s worst emperor Buy the book it s very entertaining David Aaronovitch The Times 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 A Financial Times BBC History and Spectator Book of the Year Combining the pace of a novelist the training of a scholar and the instincts of a true