Heliogabalus /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
2nd Cannons Publications,
[2009]
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| Item Description: | Cover title. 1st printing, edition of 500. The third release in a series of books by William E. Jones features accounts of Heliogabalus by Edward Gibbon, Herodian, Cassius Dio, and the spurious Aelius Lampridius. It also contains a contemporary text, "This Necrophilic Strategy Entails Some Risk," a collaboration by Bruce Hainley and Jones, previously published only in expurgated form, and now presented intact. Varius Avitus Bassanius, later known in his infamy as Heliogabalus, ruled Rome from 218 to 222 of the Common Era. After he was murdered by the soldiers who had formerly supported him, his successor, Alexander Severus, ordered that all sculptures of Heliogabalus be desecrated. The iconoclasm directed against Heliogabalus was so nearly complete that very few portraits of him still exist. Jones has somewhat opportunistically dealt with the paucity of images of this imperial person by inserting advertisements from a bygone era at intervals in Heliogabalus. These advertisements, and the book's design in general, derive from the pages of that avatar of 1970s urban culture, After Dark. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of the Antonio C. LaPastina and Dale Rice Collection. One of the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture; signed by the artist. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies collection by The Cushing Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 43 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| ISBN: | 0982055919 9780982055915 |