Historia Augusta /

• Other Authors: Magie, David, 1877- (μεταφραστής.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English; Latin
• Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1921-1932.
• Series: Loeb Classical Library 139-140, 263.
• Subjects: Αυτοκράτορες > Ρώμη > Βιογραφία; Ρώμη > Ιστοριογραφία.; Ρώμη > Ιστορία > Αυτοκρατορία, 30 π.Χ.-284 μ.Χ.; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία

The Historia Augusta (or Scriptores Historiae Augustae) is a series of biographies of Roman emperors, heirs, and claimants from Hadrian to Numerianus (117-284 CE) modeled on Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars (second century CE). Of uncertain reliability and authorship, it is now attributed by man...

Table of Contents:

• v. I. Hadrian. Aelius. Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius. L. Verus. Avidius Cassius. Commodus. Pertinax. Didius Julianus. Septimius Severus. Pescennius Niger. Clodius Albinus
• v. II. Caracalla. Geta. Opellius Macrinus. Diadumenianus. Elagabalus. Severus Alexander. The two Maximini. The three Gordians. Maximus and Balbinus
• v. III. The two Valerians. The two Gallieni. The thirty pretenders. The deified Claudius. The deified Aurelian. Tacitus. Probus. Firmus, Saturninus, Proculus and Bonosus. Carus, Carinus and Numerian.