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041			_aeng
080			_a937.07
100			_aBirley, Anthony (Trans)
245		0	_aLives of the later Caesars : the first part of the Augustan history, with newly compiled lives of Nerva and Trajan
260			_aLondon _bPenguin Books _c1976
300			_a336 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
490			_aPenguin classics
520			_a0140443080
520			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aOne of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars.
520			_a2022
650			_aEmperors--Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800
650			_aRome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
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