The Sources of the Historia Augusta
Author : Timothy David Barnes
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Emperors
ISBN :
The sources of the Historia Augusta
Author : T. D. Barnes
Publisher :
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :
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The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
Author : David Rohrbacher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,67 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.
Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond
Author : Geoffrey William Adams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,13 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.
The Historia Augusta
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Scriptores historiae Augustae
ISBN :
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Late-Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron
Author : Anne Hunnell Chen
Publisher : Columbia Studies in the Classi
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004449367
Book Description
"The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was, among other achievements, one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute W. V. Harris and Anne Hunnell Chen have brought together fourteen contributions that cover a broad range of historical, literary, and art-historical topics, running from the first century AD to the ninth. Some contributions concern Cameron's own favourite themes (the Greek Anthology, the Historia Augusta, circus factions, the transmission of texts), while others seek to assess his work and its impact. Other papers branch out from his concerns to discuss slavery, simony, and hospitals. Fourth- and fifth-century writers are often to the fore and the volume includes a new text by the poet Dioscoros of Aphrodite.Contributors are: Averil Cameron, Raffaella Cribiore, Carmela Franklin, Arianna Gullo, Jean-Luc Fournet, W. V. Harris, Anne Hunnell Chen, Gavin Kelly, Michael Kulikowski, Noel Lenski, Charlotte Roueché, Michele Renee Salzman, Rita Lizzi Testa, Edward Watts"--
Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 26,93 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.
Historia Augusta Papers
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,87 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.
Palmyra and Its Empire
Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472083152
Book Description
The rebellion of the dazzling Arab queen Zenobia against the fist of Roman domination
The Historia Augusta
Author : Norman Hepburn Baynes
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1926
Category : History
ISBN :
