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Emperors and biography : studies in the 'Historia Augusta'

Ronald Syme (Author)
This book provides biographical information for Roman emperors of the third century
Print Book, English, 1971
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971
Literary criticism
ix, 306 pages ; 25 cm
9780198143574, 0198143575
130009
The bogus names
Ipse ille patriarcha
Ignotus, the good biographer
The secondary vitae
The nomen antoninorum
the fame of Trajan
More about Marius Maximus
The careers of Maximus and Dio
The reign of Severus Alexander
Gordianus, Pupienus, Balbinus
The emperor Maximinus
Emperors from Illyricum
From Decius to Diocletian
Illyricum in the Epitomators
The emperor Claudius Tacitus
Literary talent
Fiction and credulity
Continuation of Ammianus and the Historia Augusta
Translated from Latin