Historia Augusta

Title
  • Scriptores historiae Augustae
  • Historia Augusta [Electronic resource]
Availability This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now.
Languages

Latin
Editorial Practice

Encoding format: COCOA markup references used
LC keywords

Roman emperors -- Biography
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
Biographies -- Italy -- 1st-5th century period
Extent
  • designation: Text data
  • size: (1 file : ca. 794 kilobytes)
Source Description

Not recorded
Notes

Mode of access: Online. OTA website

Title proper taken from electronic text

The Historia Augusta is an amusing collection of lives of the Roman emperors written in the fourth century A.D. The texts purport to be the work of six distinct historians (Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Volcatius Gallicanus, Aelius Lampridius, Trebellius Pollio, and Flavius Vopiscus), but were really composed by a single anonymous forger