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The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta

Author:David Rohrbacher (Author)

Summary: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. David Rohrbacher offers a literary analysis of the work. Marshalling an array of interdisciplinary research and original analysis, he contends that its allusions and parodies were meant as puzzles and jokes for a knowing audience

Print Book, English, 2016

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 2016

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics

Genre:Criticism, interpretation, etc

Physical Description:xiii, 246 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780299306007, 9780299306045, 9780299306038, 9780299327040, 0299306003, 0299306046, 0299306038, 0299327043

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:904756024

Subjects:

30 B.C.-284 A.D

Allusions dans la littérature

Allusions in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Empereurs Rome Biographies Histoire et critique

Emperors Biography

Emperors Rome Biography History and criticism

Rome Histoire 30 av. J.-C.-284 (Empire) Sources

Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. Sources

Rome History Errors, inventions, etc

Scriptores historiae Augustae

Contents:

1.Allusion in the Historia Augusta

2.The Historia Augusta and the Ancient Reader

3.Religion in the Historia Augusta

4.Imperial History Reimagined