About the Author

David Rohrbacher is associate professor of classics at New College of Florida. He is the author of The Historians of Late Antiquity.

Reviews

"A valuable literary study that synthesizes a large, diffuse body of scholarship, integrating it in an intelligent argument about the literary milieu in which the Historia Augusta emerged. The Historia Augusta has long needed a study like this one."--Adam Kemezis, University of Alberta

"This lively and original analysis of the Historia Augusta successfully argues that it was a fictional work to entertain a fifth-century audience, and the pleasure resides in the deliberate anachronisms, allusions, and parodies of both ancient and more contemporary authors and genres."--Ellen O'Gorman, University of Bristol