The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

Harry Sidebottom

304 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative tense medium-paced
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On 8 June AD218 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.What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life...

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