The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta - David Rohrbacher - Google Books Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More » Sign in Books Try the new Google Books Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features Try it now No thanks Try the new Google Books Try the new Google Books My library Help Advanced Book Search Get print book No eBook available Amazon.com.au Booktopia.com.au Dymocks Fishpond.com.au Find in a library All sellers » Shop for Books on Google Play Browse the world's largest eBookstore and start reading today on the web, tablet, phone, or ereader. Go to Google Play Now » The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta David Rohrbacher University of Wisconsin Pres, 2016 - Biography & Autobiography - 246 pages 0 Reviews 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.   Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Contents Introduction 3 1 Allusion in the Historia Augusta 16 2 The Historia Augusta and the Ancient Reader 47 3 Religion in the Historia Augusta 87 4 Imperial History Reimagined 134 Afterword 170 Notes 177 Bibliography 203 Index 221 Index Locorum 235 Copyright Other editions - View all The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta David Rohrbacher No preview available - 2020 The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta David Rohrbacher No preview available - 2016 Common terms and phrases Alex Alexander Severus allusion Ammianus Marcellinus Ammianus’s ancient Apollonius argues Attalus audience Aurelian Avidius Cassius BHAC biography Birley Bonosus Cameron Carinus Carus Chastagnol Christian Cicero claims Classical Claudius Clodius Albinus commentary Constantine contemporary context Diocletian discussion Elag Elagabalus emperor eunuchs Eutropius evidence evokes example fiction Firmus fourth century Gallienus Gellius genre Gordian Greek HA-author Hengst Herodian Hilarion Histoire Auguste V.1 Historia Augusta Historia-Augusta-Colloquium historiography humor imperial interpretation invented Jerome Jerome’s joke Julian l’Histoire Last Pagans Late Antiquity Latin letter literary lives Marius Maximus Marnas Maximinus Nicomachus Numerian offers Onesimus oracles Oxford parody particular Paschoud passage Pescennius Niger Pollio praise Probus Proculus Quad quae quam quod reader Roman Rome Rudolf Habelt scholarly scholars senate soldiers Stilicho Straub Suetonian Suetonius Syme Tacitus temple Thirty Tyrants traditional Trebellius Pollio University Press usurper Valerian Vergil Vita Vopiscus writing καὶ About the author (2016) David Rohrbacher is associate professor of classics at New College of Florida. He is the author of The Historians of Late Antiquity. Bibliographic information Title The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta Wisconsin Studies in Classics Author David Rohrbacher Publisher University of Wisconsin Pres, 2016 ISBN 0299306046, 9780299306045 Length 246 pages Subjects History  › Ancient  › Rome Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / Ancient / Rome Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / General     Export Citation BiBTeX EndNote RefMan About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home