Alex’s Reviews > Crimes of Elagabalus, The: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor > Status Update

There are six pages on the novel of a late 19th century socialist author. That's only one author.

It seems this book is one half history and one half literary review. That's not exaggerated. Icks goes on and on about the works of various "decadent" authors and even quotes their prosaic descriptions of Elagabalus' dress in verbatim.

Reading the excerpts from the contemporary and near-contemporary historians, I have a feeling that the author tried to craft a narrative independent of theirs, based on coins and circumstantial evidence mostly.