Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
This volume brings together fifteen studies written since 1972 on the notorious Historia Augusta. Syme advances the theory, supported by computer evidence, that the papers are the work of only one person, rather than six as they purport, and that they were written considerably later than the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He argues that, taken as a whole, the papers are a work of "fictional history" and constitute an elaborate and erudite hoax.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Scriptores historiae Augustae
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Author : Timothy David Barnes
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Emperors
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Author : David Rohrbacher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299306046
By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the Historia Augusta is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. Historians of late antiquity have struggled to explain the fictional date and authorship of the work and its bizarre content (did the Emperor Carinus really swim in pools of floating apples and melons? did the usurper Proculus really deflower a hundred virgins in fifteen days?). David Rohrbacher offers, instead, a literary analysis of the work, focusing on its many playful allusions. Marshaling an array of interdisciplinary research and original analysis, he contends that the Historia Augusta originated in a circle of scholarly readers with an interest in biography, and that its allusions and parodies were meant as puzzles and jokes for a knowing and appreciative audience.
Author : Anthony Birley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0141935995
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars.
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
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Author : Norman Hepburn Baynes
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 1926
Category : History
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Author : Susan Helen Ballou
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Manuscripts, Latin
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Author : Walter Ameling
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Rome
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Author : Geoffrey William Adams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739176382
This book examines the biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It seeks to further understand the author of the Historia Augusta alongside the reminiscences of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Geoff W. Adams arrives at this understanding through a study of a wide range of literary texts. Marcus Aurelius was a very important ruler of the Roman Empire, who has had an impact symbolically, philosophically, and historically upon how the Roman Empire has been envisioned. Adams achieves this end to bring a clearer understanding to his representation and to modern interpretations of his highly interpreted and romanticized representations in the ancient texts.
