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 hero is a Greek in Rome in the time of Heliogabalus, Rome standing for Russia.
From Kościuszko A Biography by Monica M. (Monica Mary) Gardner
It is noteworthy, however, that neither such close contemporaries as Heliogabalus and Nero, notorious gluttons, nor Petronius, the arbiter of fashion of the period, are among the persons thus honored.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling
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