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Martijn Icks. The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. $, cloth, ISBN Reviewed by Nathanael Andrade Published on H-Italy (July, ) Commissioned by Matt Vester (West Virginia University) The reign of the teenage Roman emperor.  · The four short years of Elagabalus’s rule have generated nearly two millennia of sustained attention, from salacious rumor to scholarly analysis to novels that cast him as a gay hero avant la lettre. Here, Martijn Icks succeeds in distinguishing the reality of the emperor’s brief life from the myth that clouds it—and in tracing the meaning of the myth itself to the present day. The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor by Martijn Icks and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru

Martijn Icks, University of Amsterdam, Ancient History Department, Faculty Member. Studies The literary works of Louis Couperus, Negative representations of ruler rituals, and The life and legacy of Elagabalus. The Crimes of Elagabalus by Martijn Icks, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Icks obtained his PhD cum laude from the University of Nijmegen in He wrote his doctoral thesis on the Roman emperor Elagabalus and his fictional afterlife in art and literature from antiquity to the present day. This study was published under the title The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor ().

The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor by Martijn Icks and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru The four years of Elagabalus's rule have generated two millennia of attention, from salacious rumor to scholarly analysis to novels casting him as a gay hero avant la lettre. Here, Icks succeeds in distinguishing the reality of the emperor's brief life from the myth that clouds it -- and in tracing the meaning of that myth to the present day. This study was published under the title The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome’s Decadent Boy Emperor (). As a Marie Curie Fellow, Icks initiated the project “Making and Unmaking the Emperor” at the University of Heidelberg (), focusing on the defamation of Roman emperors through negative interpretations of imperial rituals in ancient texts.