Lives of the Later Caesars: Augustan History, Part 1; Lives of Nerva and Trajan (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

 
9780140443080: Lives of the Later Caesars: Augustan History, Part 1; Lives of Nerva and Trajan (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140443088 ISBN 13: 9780140443080
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1976

Inhaltsangabe

One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars.

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Anthony Birley is a renowned translator.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1976
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140443088
ISBN 13 
9780140443080
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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