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Eric Varner. Transcending Gender: Assimilation, Identity, and Roman Imperial Portraits.. „Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volume.”. 7, s. 200–201, 2008. Ann Arbor, Michigan, US: University of Michigan Press. ISSN1940-0977. OCLC263448435. Cytat: Elagabalus is also alleged to have appeared as Venus and to have depilated his entire body. ... Dio recounts an exchange between Elagabalus and the well-endowed Aurelius Zoticus: when Zoticus addressed the emperor as 'my lord,' Elagabalus responded, 'Don't call me lord, I am a lady.' Dio concludes his anecdote by having Elagabalus asking his physicians to give him the equivalent of a woman's vagina by means of a surgical incision.. (ang.).
