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
The gulf between Heliogabalus, or the most womanly man on earth, and the most manly woman, is just the same as ever: just the same old gulf between the sexes.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Jupiter, with his long beard and fine sloping forehead, looked the perfect image of a pontiff, and might have been appropriately drawn as a principal figure in a picture of the marriage of Heliogabalus.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various
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