About the Author

David Rohrbacher is a 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

"An important addition to the scholarship of the Historia Augusta. . . . Offers us a steady platform from which to begin assessing the work more safely. For that, Rohrbacher is deserving of no small praise."--Mouseion

"As someone who had long pressed for a change in approach to the HA, I very much welcome this book."--Journal of Roman Studies

"Well informed and engaging. . . . Rohrbacher's lucid exposition. . . is both stimulating and important."--Classical World