Free Download The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom, Saul Reichlin, Tantor Audio
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0C9F59ZD7 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 18 minutes | 670 Mb
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On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious.
Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next four years were to be the strangest in the history of the empire.