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Lady of the Purple: The Life, Reign, and Death of the Emperor Elagabalus
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- ISBN8233940798
- EAN9798233940798
- Date de parution06/04/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
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Lady of the Purple: The Life, Reign, and Death of the Emperor ElagabalusIn 218 CE, a fourteen-year-old Syrian priest was proclaimed emperor of Rome at sunrise before an assembled legion, wearing the jeweled robes of his hereditary solar cult rather than the armor of a Roman general. His name was Elagabalus, and his four-year reign remains one of the most astonishing, misunderstood, and historically revealing episodes in the long story of the Roman Empire.
Drawing on the latest archaeological evidence from the Palatine Hill, the numismatic record, and a rigorous critical reading of the ancient sources, this book reconstructs the reign in its full complexity, the brilliant political genius of the women who engineered it, the radical theological vision that drove it, the gender identity that the Roman world could not receive, and the structural forces that made its violent end inevitable.
From the sacred black stone of Emesa to the summer processions through the streets of Rome, from the court of favorites to the dynastic calculation that sentenced the emperor to death, this is the complete history of a reign that diagnosed the Roman imperial system's deepest assumptions about power, masculinity, and the divine. The priestly emperor was not Rome's monster. He was its most revealing mirror.
Drawing on the latest archaeological evidence from the Palatine Hill, the numismatic record, and a rigorous critical reading of the ancient sources, this book reconstructs the reign in its full complexity, the brilliant political genius of the women who engineered it, the radical theological vision that drove it, the gender identity that the Roman world could not receive, and the structural forces that made its violent end inevitable.
From the sacred black stone of Emesa to the summer processions through the streets of Rome, from the court of favorites to the dynastic calculation that sentenced the emperor to death, this is the complete history of a reign that diagnosed the Roman imperial system's deepest assumptions about power, masculinity, and the divine. The priestly emperor was not Rome's monster. He was its most revealing mirror.