Studies In The Historia Augusta
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Emperors And Biography
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Author : Ronald Syme
language : en
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1971
Emperors And Biography written by Ronald Syme and has been published by Oxford : Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book provides biographical information for Roman emperors of the third century.
Studies In The Historia Augusta
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Author : Mark Thomson (Classicist)
language : en
Publisher: Latomus/Tournai
Release Date : 2012
Studies In The Historia Augusta written by Mark Thomson (Classicist) and has been published by Latomus/Tournai this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Emperors categories.
"This short monograph examines the authorship, date, context, redaction and reception of the Historia Augusta - a corpus of biographies of emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries, which purports to be the work of six writers active in the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. Thomson accepts the widely held view that one author, a scholarly impostor, composed and redacted the Historia Augusta some time after about 395. Internal evidence -which includes administrative anachronisms and allusions to events, as well as spurious names, genealogies and documents - suggests that the corpus was intended for an audience among the Roman elite of the end of the fourth century. Thomson argues that the lives were not written for a polemical purpose. Their author instead responded to widespread interest in the works of Suetonius and Marius Maximus; his countless fabrications represented attempts to fill lacunae in the record with material appropriate to the genre of imperial biography. To this end, the scholarly impostor plundered the tradition for literary models and historical examples, apparently unmoved by the strict demands of chronology. This monograph advances several arguments that may be considered innovative. After examining the evidence of the text and the tradition, Thomson substantively revises existing theories on the redaction of the corpus. He proposes that an extant collection of panegyrics (the Panegyrici Latini) -or some similar work now lost- may have provided a model for the otherwise baffling imposture of collective authorship and tetrarchic date. Thomson also tentatively suggests a connection between the scholarly impostor, the spurious author Flavius Vopiscus Syracusius and a Syracusan poetaster and antiquarian active in the relevant period (Naucellius)."--Publisher's website.
Review Of Emperors And Biography Studies In The Historia Augusta By Ronald Syme 1971
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Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Review Of Emperors And Biography Studies In The Historia Augusta By Ronald Syme 1971 written by Arnaldo Momigliano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Scriptores historiae Augustae categories.
Emperors And Biography Studies In The Historia Augusta By Sir Ronald Syme 1971 Review
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Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
language : en
Publisher:
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Emperors And Biography Studies In The Historia Augusta By Sir Ronald Syme 1971 Review written by Arnaldo Momigliano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Emperor And Biography
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Author : Ronald Syme
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Emperor And Biography written by Ronald Syme and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
The Play Of Allusion In The Historia Augusta
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Author : David Rohrbacher
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2016
The Play Of Allusion In The Historia Augusta written by David Rohrbacher and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Emperors And Biography Studies In The Historia Augusta By Sir Ronald Syme Oxford Clarendon Press 1971
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Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Emperors And Biography Studies In The Historia Augusta By Sir Ronald Syme Oxford Clarendon Press 1971 written by Arnaldo Momigliano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
Historia Augusta Papers
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Author : Ronald Syme
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1983
Historia Augusta Papers written by Ronald Syme and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
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.
Sir Ronald Syme Emperors And Biography Studies In The Historia Augusta
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Author : R. I. Frank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971*
Sir Ronald Syme Emperors And Biography Studies In The Historia Augusta written by R. I. Frank and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971* with categories.
The Sources Of The Historia Augusta
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Author : Timothy David Barnes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Sources Of The Historia Augusta written by Timothy David Barnes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Emperors categories.