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Caligula: most notorious of the Roman Emperors, who married his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, tortured and killed innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy.Award-winning writers Stephen Barber and Jeremy Reed document in full the atrocities of Caligula and also the other mad Emperors, particularly Commodus-villain of the recent Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator -and Heliogabalus, the teenage ambisexual sun-god whose arch-decadent proclivities would centuries later inspire Antonin Artaud to eulogise him in prose. The book also includes a visceral history of the Gladiatorial Games. Caligula: Divine Carnage is a catalogue of transvestism, treachery, incest, torture, slaughter and perversity brought to life with superb authorial skill, making it a vivid and essential historical document of murderous decadence.Product Identifiers
PublisherCreation Books
ISBN-139781840680492
eBay Product ID (ePID)87075382
Product Key Features
Book TitleCaligula: Divine Carnage-Atrocities of Ancient Rome
AuthorStephen Barber, Jeremy Reed
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorStephen Barber, Jeremy Reed
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom