Legacy Elagabalus

1 legacy

1.1 biographies , literature
1.2 dance
1.3 music
1.4 paintings
1.5 plays
1.6 vocabulary

legacy

elagabalus on wall painting @ forchtenstein castle

due ancient tradition him, elagabalus became of (anti-)hero in decadent movement of late 19th century. appears in literature , other creative media epitome of young, amoral aesthete. life , character have informed or @ least inspired many famous works of art, decadents, contemporary artists. notable of these works include:

biographies , literature

algabal (1892–1919), collection of poems german poet stefan george
de berg van licht (the mountain of light) (1905-6), historical novel depicting life of elagabalus dutch novelist , poet louis couperus
héliogabale ou l anarchiste couronné (heliogabalus or anarchist crowned) (1934) antonin artaud, combining essay, biography, , fiction

dance

héliogabale, modern dance choreographed maurice béjart
the legends, dance performed sebastian droste in performed heliogabalus. dance part of dances of vice, horror , ecstasy performance staged droste , anita berber in 1923.

music

eliogabalo (1667), opera venetian baroque composer francesco cavalli
heliogabale (1910), opera french composer déodat de séverac
heliogabalus imperator (emperor heliogabalus) (1972), orchestral work german composer hans werner henze
eliogabalus(1990), album italian/slovenian experimental group devil doll, inspired antonin artaud s essays
six litanies heliogabalus (2007), album american musician john zorn

paintings

the roses of heliogabalus (1888), lawrence alma-tadema.



heliogabalus, high priest of sun (1866), english decadent simeon solomon
one of notorious incidents laid account immortalized in 19th-century painting roses of heliogabalus (1888), anglo-dutch academician sir lawrence alma-tadema. shows guests @ 1 of extravagant dinner parties smothered under mass of violets , other flowers dropped above.
antonin artaud heliogabalus (2010–11), anselm kiefer

plays

heliogabalus: buffoonery in 3 acts (1920) h. l. mencken , george jean nathan
heliogabalus: love story (2002) sky gilbert
heliogabalus (2008), arelis

vocabulary

the spanish word heliogábalo means person overwhelmed gluttony .




^ cite error: named reference glbtq-enc-elagabal invoked never defined (see page).
^ detailed lists of appearance of elagabalus in various media, , critical evaluation of of these works, see martijn icks, crimes of elagabalus: life , legacy of rome s decadent boy emperor (london, 2012), 219–224.
^ life of elagabalus . augustan history. p. 19]. 
^ anselm kiefer – antonin artaud heliogabalus – 2010–11 – courtesy white cube, londra – photo ben westoby (in italian). artribune. 21 february 2012. 
^ mencken, h. l. & nathan, george jean (1920). heliogabalus: buffoonery in 3 acts. new york: alfred a. knopf. 
^ gilbert, sky (2002). heliogabalus: love story. toronto: cabaret theatre company. 
^ arelis heliogabalus (pdf). 
^ arelis-heliogabalus . 
^ heliogábalo in diccionario de la real academia española. retrieved on 2008-05-03.