Historia Augusta
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Late‑4th‑century collection of imperial biographies, often unreliable
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentDr. David GwynnThe Ancients · Rome's Crisis of the Third Century · 6:37 · Jan 2025
…Aber das ist leider das Werk, das als Historia Augusta genannt wird. Ich dachte, du würdest das sagen. Das ist eine Kollektion von imperialen Biographien. Es wird also als »Lives of Emperors« geschrieben. Es wird von sechs verschiedenen Leuten zusammengearbeitet, die rund um das Jahr 300 zusammenarbeiten.…
Dr. Alex ImrieThe Ancients · Caracalla & Geta: The Real Emperors of Gladiator II · 8:46 · Nov 2024
…There was a bit of a shift back in recent years to think that these might be kind of clever literary games going on within the set of biographies that comprises the H.A., Whereas now, more recently, people are thinking that the author of the Historia Augusta is really reliant on other late Latin historians, such as Aurelius Victor.…
Dr. Alex ImrieThe Ancients · Caracalla & Geta: The Real Emperors of Gladiator II · 8:06 · Nov 2024
…We get a little bit more maybe of Geta's personality coming through in that source, but the focus tends to be very much on the mutual animosity that builds between the two brothers. Now, ironically, the best source we have for constructing anything that we might have to consider character portraits of these two comes from the Historia Augusta.…
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