Lives of the later Caesars
Subtitle: the first part of the Augustan history, with newly compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan
By: translated and introduced by Anthony Birley.
Contributors: Birley, Anthony Richard.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Roman emperors -- Biography; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
Description: The Augustan history was written by an anonymous fourth century author pretending to be a team of six much earlier biographers. Historical fact about the Roman emperors from Hadrian through Heliogabulus is mixed with apocryphal anecdotes. Birley has bridged the gap between this text and Suetonius by including brief lives of Nerva and Trajan.
Notes: Translation of: Scriptores historiae Augustae. Includes bibliographical reference and index.

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