Editing Elagabalus (section)

===Fiction===
[[File:L'agonie (1902) Elagabalus conduisant un char a seize chevaux blancs, ou, sur un autel de pierreries, reposait le cone de pierre noire.jpg|thumb|Illustration by [[Auguste Leroux]] for the 1902 edition of [[Jean Lombard]]'s ''L'agonie'' showing the migration of the ''baetyl'' of Elgabal, though with the emperor riding rather than leading the god's chariot]]
*''[[L'Agonie]]'' (1888) by [[Jean Lombard]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/lagoniel00lomb|title=L'agonie|first=Jean|last=Lombard|date=27 June 1902|publisher=Paris : P. Ollendorff|access-date=27 June 2022|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> which was the inspiration for [[Louis Couperus]]'s ''[[De berg van licht]]'' (''The Mountain of Light'') in 1905–06.{{cn|date=July 2024}}
*''[[Héliogabale ou l'Anarchiste couronné]]'' (''Heliogabalus or The Anarchist Crowned'') by [[Antonin Artaud]] (1934), depicting the life of Elagabalus and combining essay, biography, and fiction.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Boldt-Irons |first=Leslie Anne |date=1996 |title=Anarchy and Androgyny in Artaud's "Héliogabale ou L'Anarchiste Couronné" |journal=The Modern Language Review |publisher=[[Modern Humanities Research Association]] |location=Cambridge, UK |volume=91 |issue=4 |pages=866–877 |jstor=3733514 |doi=10.2307/3733514}}</ref>
*Historical novels ''[[Family Favourites (novel)|Family Favourites]]'' (1960) by [[Alfred Duggan]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duggan |first=Alfred Leo |url=https://archive.org/details/familyfavorites00dugg |title=Family favorites |date=1961 |publisher=[New York] Pantheon Books |others=Internet Archive}}</ref> and ''[[Child of the Sun (novel)|Child of the Sun]]'' (1966) by [[Kyle Onstott]] and [[Lance Horner]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Glenn |first=Ray |date=October 26, 1972 |title=Book Reviews - Child of the Sun |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oPArAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA39&dq=child%20of%20the%20sun%20kyle%20onstott&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q=Kyle%20Onstott&f=false |access-date=January 10, 2025 |work=The Kentucky New Era}}</ref> in the former of which an ordinary Roman soldier witnesses the reign.
*[[Victor Pelevin]]'s novel ''[[Sol Invictus (novel)|Sol Invictus]]'' (2020), which depicts Elagabalus as a key unrecognized spiritual figure.{{cn|date=July 2024}}