KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus. 1st. Kansas City (USA): Valancourt Books, 2012, 486 pp. ISBN 978-1-934555-77-4.
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Original name The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus
Name in Czech The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus
Authors KAYLOR, Michael Matthew (840 United States of America, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition 1st. Kansas City (USA), 486 pp. 2012.
Publisher Valancourt Books
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Book on a specialized topic
Field of Study Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/12:00061221
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-1-934555-77-4
Keywords (in Czech) John Stuart Hay; Heliogabalus; Elagabalus; Uranian; Biography; Roman Emperor
Keywords in English John Stuart Hay; Heliogabalus; Elagabalus; Uranian; biography; Roman Emperor
Tags Biography, Elagabalus, Heliogabalus, John Stuart Hay, rivok, Roman Emperor, Uranian
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Vendula Hromádková, učo 108933. Changed: 12/4/2013 18:35.
Abstract
John Stuart Hay contributed to the Uranian canon a biography of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus (Heliogabalus), infamous as the ultimate illustration of the potential and dangers of actualized Decadence. Hay's 1911 "psychobiography" The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus "was attacked on all sides--for its subject and content, for historical inaccuracies and a lack of scholarly rigor, for its style and whiff of perversity, as well as for various instances of overt and easily recognizable plagiarism." Nonetheless, "rather than its historical accuracy (which is often questionable), [what] makes this biography worthy of rejuvenation ... [is that it] has much to say, not only about the late Uranians and their perceptions of pederastic and homoerotic history and the figures who peopled it, but also about the perceptions, or lack of perceptions, of their hetero-normative contemporaries."
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