Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 22,54 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 : David Rohrbacher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 37,25 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.
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 19,94 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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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520929101
With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust—whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian—in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.
Author : David Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1134962339
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read. Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like: * Cicero * Lucian * Aulus Gellius. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.
Author : Barry Baldwin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 900467313X
Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004452796
The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute fourteen new studies, which range from the first century AD to the ninth, pay him homage.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This book provides biographical information for Roman emperors of the third century.
Author : David Stone Potter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415100588
At the outset of the period covered by this book, Rome was the greatest power in the world. By its end, it had fallen conclusively from this dominant position. David Potter's comprehensive survey of two critical and eventful centuries traces the course of imperial decline.
