Historia Augusta
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The Historia Augusta is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on t
Page from an early-9th-century manuscript of the Historia Augusta (end of the life of Antoninus Pius and beginning of the life of Marcus Aurelius)
Hermann Dessau, whose groundbreaking work on the Historia Augusta led to its critical re-evaluation in the 20th century
Cicero, one of the authors whose works the Historia Augusta references obliquely.
Trebellianus, one of the fictitious tyrants included in the Historia Augusta, drawn by Guillaume Rouillé's engraver in Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum (1553)
Suetonius
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum
Historia Augusta
…in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the similar work of Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, it presents itself as a compilation of works by six different authors, collectively known as the Scriptores Historiae Augustae…
19th-century etching of Suetonius
Inscription dedicated to Suetonius from his hometown Annaba (now in Algeria), Museum of Hippo Regius, ca. 125 AD