Caligula : divine carnage : atrocities of the Roman emperors / Stephen Barber, Jeremy Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barber, Stephen, 1961-

Contributor:

Reed, Jeremy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41.

Caligula.

Emperors--Rome--Biography.

Emperors.

Atrocities--Rome.

Atrocities.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

159 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : Creation, 2001.

Summary:

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incest, torture, slaughter and perversity brought to life with superb authorial skill, making it a vivid and essential historical document of murderous decadence.

Contents:

Foreword: Orgy Of Death / James Havoc 5

Introduction: Purple Haze: Decadence, Derangement, Depravity / Jeremy Reed 11

1 Caligula: Divine Carnage / Stephen Barber 23

2 Gladiator: Blood, Semen, Ecstasy / Stephen Barber 59

3 Commodus: Imperial Delirium / Stephen Barber 93

4 Heliogabalus: Black Sun Rising / Jeremy Reed 107

Postscript: "Ultima Verba": The Final Atrocity / Stephen Barber 153.

ISBN:

1840680490

OCLC:

45829894