Historia Augusta Volume I: Latin and English Edition (Hopkins Classical Collection)

HOPKINS CLASSICAL COLLECTION Historia Augusta Volume I: Hadrian, Aelius, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Avidius Cassius, Commodus, Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, Caracalla, Geta, Opellius Macrinus, Diadumenianus 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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HOPKINS CLASSICAL COLLECTION
Historia Augusta Volume I: Hadrian, Aelius, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Avidius Cassius, Commodus, Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, Caracalla, Geta, Opellius Macrinus, Diadumenianus

The Historia Augusta (English: Augustan History) is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the similar work of Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, it presents itself as a compilation of works by six different authors (collectively known as the Scriptores Historiae Augustae), written during the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine I and addressed to those emperors or other important personages in Ancient Rome. The collection, as extant, comprises thirty biographies, most of which contain the life of a single emperor, but some include a group of two or more, grouped together merely because these emperors were either similar or contemporaneous.

This edition of the Hopkins Classical Collection features the original Latin manuscript on the left hand pages with an accompanying English translation on the right hand side.