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. Historians
of late antiquity have struggled to explain the fictional date and
authorship of the work and its bizarre content (did the Emperor
Carinus really swim in pools of floating apples and melons? did the
usurper Proculus really deflower a hundred virgins in fifteen
days?). David Rohrbacher offers, instead, a literary analysis of
the work, focusing on its many playful allusions. Marshaling an
array of interdisciplinary research and original analysis, he
contends that the Historia Augusta originated in a circle of
scholarly readers with an interest in biography, and that its
allusions and parodies were meant as puzzles and jokes for a
knowing and appreciative audience.
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