The Historia Augusta (English: Augustan History) is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues...
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assessment. His career before becoming emperor is documented in the Historia Augusta as well as Cassius Dio's History of Rome, and confirmed in many places...
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Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 1.4. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 3.4. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus, 1.5. Historia Augusta, Didius Julianus...
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was of Thraco-Roman origin. According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, he was born in Thrace or Moesia to a Gothic father and an Alanic mother;...
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Fündling, Kommentar zur Vita Hadriani der Historia Augusta (= Antiquitas. Reihe 4: Beiträge zur Historia-Augusta-Forschung, Serie 3: Kommentare, Bände 4...
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the Historia Augusta, he wished to erect a temple to Jesus but was dissuaded by the pagan priests; however, this claim is unreliable as the Historia Augusta...
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Cyriades (section The Historia Augusta)
the chapter on the Thirty Tyrants within the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta (and writing under the fictitious name of Trebellius Pollio), whose...
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Aurelius Zoticus (section Version of Historia Augusta)
two versions, one told by Cassius Dio and one contained in the later Historia Augusta. The contemporary historian Dio tells that Aurelius Zoticus was an...
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Historiae Augustae (Authors of the Historia Augusta). Historia Augusta (Augustan History). Magie, David, trans. Historia Augusta. 3 vols. Loeb ed. London: Heinemann...
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this period survive only as fragments and abbreviations), and the Historia Augusta (untrustworthy because of its character as a work of literature rather...
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Historia Augusta - Probus, 13.6. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.3. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.2. Historia Augusta - Probus, 14.1. Historia Augusta -...
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Routledge. pp. 284, 286. ISBN 9781135971250. The notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta suggests Geta was born in May [27th] of 189. However, other more reliable...
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collection of imperial biographies called the Historia Augusta. However, his story, like the rest of the Historia Augusta, is riddled with fabrications and obsequious...
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senator Cassius Dio who was strongly hostile to him, and the much later Historia Augusta. The reliability of these accounts, particularly their most salacious...
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ISBN 9781526767530. Historia Augusta, 12:5. Jerome, s.a. 271. Historia Augusta, 12:6. Historia Augusta, 13:9. Historia Augusta, 13:1. Manders 2012, p...
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Claudius Maximus (section In the Historia Augusta)
where Apuleius delivered a defense against a charge of magic. The Historia Augusta mentions Claudius Maximus as one of Marcus Aurelius' Stoic teachers...
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Firmus (section Historia Augusta account)
According to the Historia Augusta, Firmus (died 273) was a usurper of Syrian origin during the reign of Aurelian. The contradictory accounts of his life...
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is a fictitious letter written in Diadumenianus' biography in the Historia Augusta. Cooley, p. 496. Naylor, Phillip (2015). North Africa, Revised Edition:...
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ISBN 9781579583163. Birley 2000, p. 34; Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 1:7. Magie, David, Historia Augusta (1921), Life of Antoninus Pius, Note 6 CIL...
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return to Leptis, where the climate was healthier. According to the Historia Augusta, a usually unreliable source, he was prosecuted for adultery during...
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The next two years (166–168) were spent in Rome. According to the Historia Augusta, Verus continued with his glamorous lifestyle and kept the troupe of...
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Syme, Ronald. Ammianus and the Historia Augusta, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968. Syme, Ronald. Historia Augusta Papers, The Clarendon Press, Oxford...
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nomen (family name) Pupienus (Classical Latin: [puːpiˈeːnʊs]). The Historia Augusta, whose testimony is not to be trusted unreservedly, paints Pupienus...
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790–792. Life of Caracalla (Historia Augusta at LacusCurtius: Latin text and English translation) Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, Books 79–80 Aurelius...
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Severus, and killed while attempting to flee from Antioch. According to Historia Augusta, Niger's parents were Annius Fuscus and Lampridia. It also states that...
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p. 216 Wood 1999, p. 321 Historia Augusta (1921). "6. Avidius Cassius". Historia Augusta. doi:10.4159/dlcl.historia_augusta_avidius_cassius.1921. Davies...
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ISBN 3515083820. Historia Augusta, Vita Probi, 20:1 Zonaras, 12:29 Victor, 37:4 Historia Augusta, Vita Probi, 20:2-3 Historia Augusta, Vita Cari, 6:1 Gibbon...
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of the Historia Augusta invented many events and letters attributed to Zenobia in the absence of contemporary sources. Some Historia Augusta accounts...
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279 Gibbon, p. 280 Aurelius Victor, 36:1 Historia Augusta, Vita Taciti, 13:5 Zosimus, I:63:2 Historia Augusta, Vita Taciti, English translation Eutropius...
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offer at first out of loyalty, but soon accepted. The often unreliable Historia Augusta is aware of both traditions, although it prefers the former. He does...
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