Miguel Pablo Sancho Gomez
ISBN: 978-84-946637-5-8
DL: MU 489-2018120 pages
CEPOAT Publications
Published 10-1-2018
Content:
- Presentation
- Prologue
- Preface
- Brief historiographical overview
- Literary and religious features in the Augustan History
- The Lagoon in Augusta History
- Praise of the Tetrarchs
- Argumentation about the religious phenomena in the work
- Appendix I: the priestly colleges and the golden statue of fortune
- Appendix II: The nomen antoninorum
- Literature
Summary:
The Historia Augusta, unique in Antiquity as a literary product given its exceptional characteristics, has been defined as a written source of little or no trust, from a historical point of view, because it is full of fallacious information. But the drawbacks do not stop at the style or the poor quality of the prose. The large number of aberrant elements, the untimely dedications, the falsehoods in authorship and dating, the canonizations carried out throughout the text and the bombastic prefaces add countless problems to a historical source that is already complicated, cumbersome, discrepant and full of enigmas, many of which remain undiscovered to this day. One of the issues that has drawn the most attention of researchers is the religious controversy present in the work. This study attempts to compile and analyze all the references in this regard to sketch a portrait of the religious feelings of the elusive and unknown author, with the aim of contributing to the studies on the subject that, since 1889, the year of Hermann Dessau’s revolutionary theory, have attempted to clarify the many questions present in this mysterious collection of biographies.
