Family Favourites Paperback / softback
by Alfred Duggan
Paperback / softback
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It was really the army's fault. Bored with respectable middle-aged generals, they picked Elagabalus, thirteen-year-old high priest of a Syrian sun-god, to be Emperor of Rome. Golden-haired, handsome as a god, a brilliant charioteer with a passion for stable boys - this wilful adolescent was hardly a fit successor to Caesar and Augustus.
With real government in the able hands of family favourites - grandmother, mother, aunt - he was left free to pursue his own extravagant pleasures until his inevitable assassination. This fantastic reign with its fabulous banquets and practical jokes, painted boys and rickshaw girls, makes a fine subject for one of Alfred Duggan's most skilful reconstructions of history. `An intimate first-hand account of the bizarre, off-beat moment in history when the exotic East descended upon the sober West' Evening Standard `Mr Duggan has a marvellously wry quality in his writing.
Behind the straight face of his novel there is a disciplined hilarity which is tremendously appealing' Sunday Times
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:09/08/2012
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- ISBN:9781447228929
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:09/08/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781447228929