Caligula Divine Carnage: Atrocities Of The Roman Emperors

Barber, Stephen (& Jeremy Reed)

ISBN 10: 1840680490 / ISBN 13: 9781840680492

Published by Creation Books: London, 2001

About this Item

156 pages: introduction by James Havoc. Fine (as new) copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caligula Divine Carnage: Atrocities Of The Roman Emperors
• Publisher: Creation Books: London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840680490
• ISBN 13: 9781840680492
• Binding: Trade paperback original
• Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

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Synopsis

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incest, torture, slaughter and perversity brought to life with superb authorial skill, making it a vivid and essential historical document of murderous decadence.

About the Author

Stephen Barber is a noted cultural historian and the leading authority on Antonin Artaud. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including: Burning World, the best-selling biography of Edmund White; Tokyo Vertigo; the wide-selling Caligula: Divine Carnage; and Artaud: Blows And Bombs, the definitive biography.