Heliogabalus
Americannoun
noun
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References to Antonin Artaud, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are interspersed with narrative snippets and nods to Heliogabalus, emperor of Rome from 218-222, when he was assassinated at the ripe old age of 18.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2017
John Zorn Zorn has taken his music on a numerological and symbolical journey into the occult in recent years with albums such as IAO: Music in Sacred Light or the barnstorming Six Litanies for Heliogabalus.
From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2010
I do not wish to discuss Heliogabalus or Macrinus or Julian, who were immediately wiped out since they were universally contemptible.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
I maintain that the dinners of the most illustrious Signor Don Roderick exceed the suppers of Heliogabalus, and that scarcity is banished for ever from this palace, where reigns a perpetual and splendid abundance.”
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
That delirium, mounting always, increased under Commodus, heightened under Caracalla, and reached its crisis in Heliogabalus.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
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