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The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
David Rohrbacher
出版
University of Wisconsin Pres
, 2016
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
History / General
History / Ancient / General
History / Ancient / Rome
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN
0299306046
9780299306045
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gDwGCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.