02717oam 22005894a 450 991095876420332120230807205635.097802993060380299306038(CKB)3710000000538010(EBL)4415944(SSID)ssj0001582833(PQKBManifestationID)16260265(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001582833(PQKBWorkID)13284722(PQKB)10752601(MiAaPQ)EBC4415944(OCoLC)933515892(MdBmJHUP)muse47069(Perlego)4386017(EXLCZ)99371000000053801020150310h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta /David RohrbacherMadison, Wisconsin :The University of Wisconsin Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (268 p.)Wisconsin studies in classicsDescription based upon print version of record.9780299306007 0299306003 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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. Wisconsin studies in classics.Allusions in literatureEmperorsRomeBiographyHistory and criticismRomeHistoryErrors, inventions, etcRomeHistoryEmpire, 30 B.C.-284 A.DSourcesAllusions in literature.EmperorsBiographyHistory and criticism.877.01Rohrbacher David1969-292433MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910958764203321Play of allusion in the Historia Augusta3059482UNINA