The Historia Augusta Its Date And Purpose
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The Historia Augusta Its Date And Purpose
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
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The Historia Augusta
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Author : Norman Hepburn Baynes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
The Historia Augusta written by Norman Hepburn Baynes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with Scriptores historiae Augustae categories.
The Historia Augusta
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Author : Norman Hepburn Baynes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
The Historia Augusta written by Norman Hepburn Baynes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with History categories.
Marcus Aurelius In The Historia Augusta And Beyond
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Author : Geoffrey William Adams
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
Marcus Aurelius In The Historia Augusta And Beyond written by Geoffrey William Adams and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 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.
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 Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Ammianus And The Historia Augusta
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Author : Ronald Syme
language : en
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1968
Ammianus And The Historia Augusta 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 1968 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Manuscript Tradition Of The Historia Augusta
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Author : Susan Helen Ballou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
The Manuscript Tradition Of The Historia Augusta written by Susan Helen Ballou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with Manuscripts, Latin categories.
Historia Augusta
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Author : David Rohrbacher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Historia Augusta written by David Rohrbacher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Emperors categories.
"Despite a century of intensive scholarly interest, the nature and purpose of the Historia Augusta remain elusive. It is, however, an essential text for historians of the ancient world because it is the most detailed Latin source for the second and third centuries AD, and it often provides details beyond what we find in the Greek sources. In addition, it offers pleasure for the casual reader from its gossipy recounting of the passions, follies, and scandals of decadent emperors, and the noble and admirable deeds of the good ones. The work comes to us as a collection of thirty books which cover the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (ruled 117-138) to Carinus (283-285). The lives roughly follow the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius. They offer not only a historical narrative of the important deeds of the subject's life, but also evidence of the emperor's character as revealed through habits or anecdotes. The author follows other imperial biographers like Plutarch in differentiating biography from history. Biography is traditionally more concerned with facts and accuracy, and less concerned with style and elegance"--