BOOKS: Paperbacks by Murrough O'Brien - An emperor crushed by the juggernaut of exposition Boy Caesar By Jeremy Reed PETER OWEN pounds 11.95

The Independent on Sunday | January 11, 2004| | Copyright

In the roll of those later Roman emperors who blundered, belched and burned their way to catastrophe, the strange, androgynous figure of Heliogabalus has seemed to many chroniclers barely worth a mention. But for Jim, a gay student, haunting in modern Soho, the boy- emperor's short and lurid reign offers a glimpse of an empire which could have taken a more tolerant, more pacific direction. But there are troubles closer to home. His boyfriend, Danny, has become an acolyte in a sado-masochistic cult whose leader, a wraithlike "saint" called Slut, has not taken Jim's repugnance for his religion ...

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