The Sources of the Historia Augusta
Author : Timothy David Barnes
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
Author : David Rohrbacher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299306046
Book Description
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.
Late-Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron
Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004452796
Book Description
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.
Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond
Author : Geoffrey William Adams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739176382
Book Description
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.
Emperors and Usurpers
Author : Andrew G. Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0190879599
Book Description
This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A. D. 217. to the reign of Severus Alexander and Cassius Dio's retirement from political life in 229. Cassius Dio, a Roman Senator, provides a valuable eyewitness account of this turbulent period, which was marked by the assassination of Caracalla, the rise of Macrinus, Rome's first equestrian emperor, and his subsequent overthrow, the tempestuous, and by all accounts peculiar, reign of Elagabalus, and the continuation of the Severan dynasty under the young Severus Alexander. In addition to elucidating important passages from these books, this study assesses Cassius Dio's political life and its relationship to his literary career; his call to history and time of composition; his historical method; and his attitude toward and subsequent presentation of the later Severan dynasty. In its investigation of books 79(78)-80(80), the work assesses an important stretch of Dio's actual text, which for other parts has been preserved largely in epitome and excerpts. Finally, the work aims to fill a gap in scholarship, as no commentary on these books of Cassius Dio's history has been produced since the nineteenth century, and its publication coincides with a renewed interest in the history and historiography of the Severan period.
Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316598500
Book Description
Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution not only to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts.
Palmyra and Its Empire
Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472083152
Book Description
The rebellion of the dazzling Arab queen Zenobia against the fist of Roman domination
Historia Augusta Papers
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
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.
Emperors and Biography
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
This book provides biographical information for Roman emperors of the third century.
The Reign of Emperor Gallienus
Author : Ilkka Syvänne
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1526745224
Book Description
“An unusual history of an unusual soldier of Rome who rose to Emperor . . . an engaging history of a fascinating subject—Very Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench This is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly military man of all of the soldier emperors of the third century, Gallienus is the emperor in Harry Sidebottom’s bestselling Warrior of Rome novels. Gallienus faced more simultaneous usurpations and foreign invasions than any other emperor, but somehow he managed to survive. Dr. Ilkka Syvanne explains how this was possible. It was largely thanks to the untiring efforts of Gallienus that the Roman Empire survived for another 1,200 years. Gallienus was a notorious libertarian, womanizer, and cross-dresser, but he was also a fearless warrior, duelist and general all at the same time. This monograph explains why he was loved by the soldiers, yet so intensely hated by some officers that they killed him in a conspiracy. The year 2018 was the 1,800th anniversary of Gallienus’ date of birth and the 1,750th anniversary of his date of death. The Reign of Gallienus celebrates the life and times of this great man. “A beautiful book that investigates the life and works of an emperor undervalued by the ‘general public’ but who deserves to be known for his military and historical legacy.” —Old Barbed Wire Blog
