LEADER 02717oam 22005894a 450 001 9910958764203321 005 20230807205635.0 010 $a9780299306038 010 $a0299306038 035 $a(CKB)3710000000538010 035 $a(EBL)4415944 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001582833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16260265 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001582833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13284722 035 $a(PQKB)10752601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4415944 035 $a(OCoLC)933515892 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47069 035 $a(Perlego)4386017 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000538010 100 $a20150310h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta /$fDavid Rohrbacher 210 1$aMadison, Wisconsin :$cThe University of Wisconsin Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 225 1 $aWisconsin studies in classics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780299306007 311 08$a0299306003 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 330 8 $aBy turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the Historia Augusta is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. Historians of late antiquity have struggled to explain the fictional date and authorship of the work and its bizarre content (did the Emperor Carinus really swim in pools of floating apples and melons? did the usurper Proculus really deflower a hundred virgins in fifteen days?). David Rohrbacher offers, instead, a literary analysis of the work, focusing on its many playful allusions. Marshaling an array of interdisciplinary research and original analysis, he contends that the Historia Augusta originated in a circle of scholarly readers with an interest in biography, and that its allusions and parodies were meant as puzzles and jokes for a knowing and appreciative audience. 410 0$aWisconsin studies in classics. 606 $aAllusions in literature 606 $aEmperors$zRome$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 607 $aRome$xHistory$xErrors, inventions, etc 607 $aRome$xHistory$yEmpire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D$vSources 615 0$aAllusions in literature. 615 0$aEmperors$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a877.01 700 $aRohrbacher$b David$f1969-$0292433 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958764203321 996 $aPlay of allusion in the Historia Augusta$93059482 997 $aUNINA