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	Heliogabalus
		Heliogabalus was the son of Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias Bassiana[?], niece of Julia Domna[?] (the wife of Septimius Severus).
		Heliogabalus was serving as hereditary high priest of the deity when his mother and grandmother used him as a figurehead against Macrinus, who had succeeded Caracalla.
		Heliogabalus is best known for the acts of debauchery that were supposed to have characterised his regime.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus.html (458 words)

	HELIOGABALUS. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was chosen by the troops in Syria as emperor in opposition to Macrinus, who had killed and succeeded Caracalla.
		He imported the cult of which he was priest, and Rome was shocked and disgusted by the indecency of the rites as well as by the private life of the emperor, who gave high offices to an actor, a charioteer, and a barber.
		Heliogabalus and his mother were murdered in an uprising of the Praetorian Guard.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/he/Heliogab.html (156 words)

	Alexander Severus - LoveToKnow Watches
		ALEXANDER SEVERUS (MARCUS AURELIUS SEVERUS ALEXANDER) (208-235), Roman emperor from A.D. 222 to 235, was born at Arca Caesarea in Palestine on the ist of October 208.
		In the next year, on the I I th of March, Heliogabalus was murdered, and Alexander was proclaimed emperor by the Praetorians and accepted by the senate.
		Mutinies became frequent in all parts of the empire; to ore of them the life of the jurist and praetorian praefect Ulpian was sacrificed; another compelled the retirement of Dio Cassius from his command.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alexander_Severus (410 words)

	Wikipedia: Julia Maesa
		In Syria, Maesa engaged in a plot to overthrow the usurper and place one of her grandsons, Heliogabalus son of Julia Soaemias, in his place.
		The support would not be with him for a long time, because when the teenager proved to be a disaster as emperor (even taking the liberty of marrying a Vestal virgin), Julia Maesa decided to promote Alexander Severus, another of her grandsons.
		Heliogabalus was forced to adopt Alexander as son and was murdered shortly afterwards.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/j/ju/julia_maesa.html (325 words)

	Elagabalus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This fl propaganda was passed on and as such he was one of the most reviled Roman emperors to early Christian historians and later became a hero to the Decadent movement of the late 19th century.
		His grandmother Julia Maesa was the widow of the Consul Julius Avitus, the sister of Julia Domna, and the sister-in-law of Emperor Septimius Severus.
		When the Emperor Macrinus came to power he exiled Julia Maesa, her two daughters, and her eldest grandson, Elagabalus, to her estate at Emesa in Syria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heliogabalus (2784 words)

	Alexander Severus
		Alexander Severus (Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander) (208-235), Roman emperor from AD 222 to 235, was born at Arca Caesarea in Palestine on October 1, 208.
		His original name was Bassianus, but he changed it in 221 when his grandmother, Maesa, persuaded the emperor Heliogabalus to adopt his cousin as successor and create him Caesar.
		In the next year, on March 11, Heliogabalus was murdered, and Alexander was proclaimed emperor by the Praetorians and accepted by the senate.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alexander_Severus.html (402 words)

	Heliogabalus
		Heliogabalus: emperor of Rome, ruled from 218 to 222, famous for his religious reforms and the introduction of the cult of the Syrian sun god Elagabal.
		This is the typical approach in an emperor's biography; immoral behavior and appearance are characteristics of a bad emperor.
		Heliogabalus is also depicted as a perverse, effeminate, cruel boy who does not care at all for state affairs but merely seeks ways to enhance his pleasures.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/heliogabalus/heliogabalus.htm (1195 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Elagabalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Elagabalus the emperor was a high-priest of this deity, and his active promotion of the god was among several actions that made him an object of scorn and ridicule among the Roman aristocracy.
		The emperor was born with the names Varius Avitus Bassianus sometime between the autumn of 203 and the spring of 204.
		Paintings were displayed showing the emperor dressed as the Emesene high-priest, and a marriage to Cornelia Paula took place almost immediately upon the emperor's arrival in Rome in late summer 219.
	www.roman-emperors.org /elagabal.htm (1200 words)

	Heliogabalus: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Here the bizarre...of the subject matter--the emperor Heliogabalus in the act of murdering his own guests...reliably inform us about the crimes of Heliogabalus or Caracalla, the cruelty of the amphitheater...
		Here George compares himself to the vicious Roman emperor Heliogabalus, albeit in a German avatar, as the despotic ruler of a dark underground realm made of coal, where he wishes to grow the...
		HELIOGABALUS he leogab l s or Elagabalus el gab l s, c.205...When Macrinus was defeated and killed at Antioch, Heliogabalus became emperor as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/heliogabalus.jsp (1096 words)

	Invictus777.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Artaud would write in Heliogabalus of this Emperor-God as 'son of the summits, false Antonin, Sardanapalus, and finally Heliogabalus, a name that seems to be the auspicious grammatical contraction of the highest denominations of the sun'.
		Heliogabalus begins: 'Just as there was an intense circulation of blood and excrement around Heliogabalus' corpse, dead without a tomb, his throat cut by his own police in the latrines of the palace, there was around his cradle an intense circulation of sperm'.
		Heliogabalus was the son of Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias Basssiana, niece of [Julia Domna]?
	www.invictus777.com /aboutsolinvictus.html (2875 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Heliogabalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heliogabalus HELIOGABALUS [Heliogabalus] or Elagabalus, c.205-222, Roman emperor (218-22).
		Macrinus MACRINUS [Macrinus] (Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus), 164-218, Roman emperor (217-18).
		A Moorish officer, prefect of the Praetorian Guard under Caracalla, he was threatened by the emperor's murderous plans.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printablenew/21243.html (425 words)

	Mithra & Mithraism - The Fall of Mithras - (CAIS)
		Interest in the Eastern deities was encouraged by the kindship between the Roman emperors and the Syrian dynasty.
		From the moment that he was initiated in a Mithraeum at Constantinople and entered into the highest grade of the cult he did everything in his power to encourage the triumph of the Mithraic cult, but his life was cut short by an arrow during his expedition against the Persian King Shapur.
		After his death in A.D. 363 a period of comparative tolerance set in, but this was cut short by an edict of the Emperor Gratian in A.D. The altar of Victory was removed from the Senate, and state support for the upkeep of the Roman cult was withdrawn.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Religions/iranian/Mithraism/m_m/pt11.htm (1562 words)

	Jeanne Tripier Jeanne d'Arc \| Script Outline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heliogabalus was serving as heriditary high preist of the deity when his mother and grandmother used him as a figurehead against Marcrinus, who had succeeded Caracalla.
		Heliogabalus also sacrificed human victims, and for this purpose he collected from the whole of Italy children of noble birth and beautiful appearance, whose fathers and mothers were alive, intending that the sorrow, if suffered by two parents, should be all the greater.
		Heliogabalus draws the cries, orchestrates the genetic and calcined ardor, the ardor of death, the futile rite.
	www.lumiere.net.nz /reader/info_jeanne_tripier_1.html (2041 words)

	Heliogabalus
		Heliogabalus must have considered himself a pious man although he wasn't depicted this way in ancient sources.
		When one looks at this calendar, one will understand that the emperor as high priest was constantly occupied by the demands of his god, who left his servant no time for state affairs.
		Heliogabalus may have been quiet during the first two years of his reign, but from 220 there was to be no mistake as to which god stood first in line.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/heliogabalus/heliogabalus-religion2.html (1270 words)

	Roman Empire-Beginning of the End (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Severus, Septimus - Emperor (193 - 211 CE)
		Maximinus-First of the Barrack's Emperors (236- 237 CE)
		Postumans-First of the Gallic Emperors (259 - 268 CE)
	www.boundaryschools.com /perley/kencon/pages/Romanempirebeginningoftheend.html (217 words)

	Constantine - history - Dr. Rollinson's Courses and Resources
		Emperor Galerius issues edict shortly before his death, tolerating Christian religion throughout the empire and allowing reconstruction of the churches; Galerius believed his fatal illness to be the vengeance of God
		Julian the Apostate, cousin of Emperor Constantius, defeats an invasion of Germanic tribes, and is declared Emperor.
		Emperor Theodosius I of the East, reunites the Roman Empire, makes Christianity the official state religion and prohibits the practice of pagan rituals including the Olympic Games; but allows Judaism and the religion of the Samaritans.
	www.drshirley.org /hist/hist09.html (1343 words)

	Roman Emperors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But Emperor Vitellius (known as 'The Glutton') only ruled for a matter of months before he was dragged half-naked to the forum where he was tortured, killed and tossed in the river Tiber.
		By evil emperor standards he was not that cruel (although he did starve his mother to death), it was his greediness that made him unpopular.
		Emperor Domitian's favourite hobby was developing new methods of torture, his favourite was barbecuing people's naughty bits!
	homepages.enterprise.net /crossy/rome/emperors.html (367 words)

	InfoHub - View Single Post - Coin of Ardashir I
		P.S. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Alexander Severus was born on October 1, 208 A.D. at Arca Caesarea in Lebanon.
		Severus's grandmother Maesa had talked Heliogabalus into adopting Severus (who was a cousin of Heliogabalus) as the successor.
		Heliogabalus was murdered on March 11, 222 and the Praetorians soon declared Alexander Severus to be the new emperor.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showpost.php?p=16280&postcount=1 (650 words)

	The Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The emperor of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, Galerius, refused to recognize the choice of the troops in Britain, Constantine, and instead he chose his drinking companion, Licinius, as the emperor to rule the western half of the empire.
		There he was hailed as emperor of the West, as a man of boldness, and as a man favored and guided by the gods.
		The western emperor, Honorius, fled from the city of Ravenna and found refuge behind the walls of Florence, forty miles southwest of Ravenna.
	www.rrcc-online.com /~harolda/newintro/module2/roman.htm (7527 words)

	The Timetables of History :: Year 1 to year 1000
		By the end of the first century, Roman politics was very perturbing with the ascension to power of a variety of emperors and a storm (diversity) of political and social patterns.
		Emperors: Aurelian overthrowns kingdom of Palmyra 273, succeeded by Marcus Aurelius Probus 276-282, Marcus Aurelius Carus 282-283, Diocletian 284-305ª
		The Third century was definitely marked by the conquer of a variety cities and lands and the ascension of a panoply of emperors to power.
	www.mnetweb.net /business6/timetablesofhistory (725 words)

	J. Stuart Hay: "The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus"
		The Emperor who is studied in this volume has commonly been treated as if his reign had no significance, unless it were to show what deep places the Roman Empire had sunk when such a monster of lubricity could wield the supreme power.
		I do not suggest that Constantine formulated the problem in the general terms in which we may formulate it now; he was pushed to his far-reaching decision by a variety of particular social facts, which involved the general problem, while they forced upon him a particular solution.
		Hay's investigation, it will be recognised that this Emperor made, according to his lights, a perfectly sincere attempt to benefit mankind, which must be judged independently of his own moral or physiological perversities.
	members.aol.com /heliogabby/amazing/aeh2.htm (1242 words)

	Elagabalus
		On the murder of Caracalla (217), Julia Maesa, Varius's grandmother and Caracalla's aunt, left Rome and retired to Emesa, accompanied by her grandsons (Varius and Severus Alexander).
		His beauty, and the splendid ceremonials at which he presided, made him a great favorite with the troops stationed in that part of Syria, and Maesa increased his popularity by spreading reports that he was in reality the illegitimate son of Caracalla.
		The shameless profligacy of the emperor's life was such as to shock even a jaded Roman public.
	www.nndb.com /people/005/000095717 (416 words)

	C r e a t i o n B o o k s: Heliogabalus
		Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the third-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book.
		Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, Heliogabalus is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence – the divine upstart Heliogabalus ends his reign hacked to pieces by his own guards in the latrines of his imperial palace.
		Heliogabalus was Rome’s Emperor from the ages of fourteen to eighteen; his reign was characterized by murder, incest, sodomy, debauchery and an anarchic ridicule for the powers of government.
	www.creationbooks.com /titles/1840681004.html (301 words)

	Herodian - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His introduction suggests that he was an apparitor (the assistant of a a prefect or a procurator) during the reign of the emperor Maximinus (235-238), which in turn suggests that he was probably a freedman, or perhaps a Roman knight.
		Reign of Macrinus; the soldiers proclaim the priest Heliogabalus emperor; death of Macrinus; Heliogabalus's unusual behavior; some of his religious excesses; he is forced to adopt his relative Alexander; death of Heliogabalus
		Herodian describes the reign of seventeen emperors: only one of them died a natural death, one of them was a very old man, another was a boy of thirteen, one of them a priest of the Syrian sun god.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Herodian (686 words)

	Knitting Circle Heliogabalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heliogabalus, also known as Elagabalus, is the divine name of Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antonius Augustus.
		In AD218 he was proclaimed emperor by the army and he defeated his rival Macrinus on the borders of Syria and Phoenicia.
		Heliogabalus had his minion Hierocles, and seems to have sought similar pleasures whenever he could.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/heliogabalus.html (170 words)

	THE MYTHOS OF HELIOGABALUS - Heliogabalus
		In this body every symptom has got the structure of a linguistic attempt, and at the same time reveals itself like it was a pre-existent inscription to be deciphered, maybe written on the hemline of a dress, on a wall or an insignificant fragment of an object on stage.
		It’s often represented on the walls of ideal cities and it always involves a reference to places and directions to be mentally followed throughout a central place (a building, a city) where the things to be remembered are kept.
		Heliogabalus imperatore - Un danzatore straniero a Roma
	www.heliogabalus.org /chanel.php (5705 words)

	Lampridius: The Life of Heliogabalus
		This befell him as the result of the general hatred of all, against which particularly emperors must be on their guard, since those who do not win the love of the senate, the people, and the soldiers do not win the right of burial.
		Of these the most righteous and the most worthy of careful narration was Alexander (who was emperor for thirteen years, whereas the others ruled for but six months or at most for one or two years), the most distinguished was Aurelian, but the glory of them all was Claudius, the founder of your family.
		To these emperors we must add Licinius and Maxentius, all whose power has been made subject to your sway, writing of them, however, in such a way that full justice shall be done to their prowess.
	members.aol.com /heliogabby/bio/eng.htm (10331 words)

	Heliogabalus: Or, The Crowned Anarchist (Creation Modern Classics) - PowerBookSearch!
		Antonin Artaud_s novelized biography of the third-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is both his most accessible and his most extreme book.
		Written in 1933, when Artaud was preparing his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, Heliogabalus is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification, and terminal violence.Reflecting its author_s preoccupation with the occult, magic, -Satan, and esoteric religions, the author assembles an entire world-view from the raw material of insanity, sexual obsession and anger.
		Antonin Artaud's novelized biography of the third-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is both his most accessible and his most extreme book.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch1840681004.html (237 words)

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