12-08-2005, 11:41 PM
[url:2gz64463]http://www.livius.org/hi-hn/ha/hist_aug.html[/url]
"At least one ruler has been invented, remarkable omens are introduced, and anecdotes are added."
Nevertheless SHA information confirms by other authors (and by coins - see the news about "New Domitian"). The authors of SHA wrote in the early IV century (under Diocletian), and we have no many literary sources earlier SHA, describing III century. But we trust only later sources. Why? Almost all antique writers added remarkable omens and anecdotes, but only SHA is unbelievable! By the way what do you think: Suetonius is more reliable?
"The "minor" biographies (i.e. the lives of co-rulers and usurpers) are usually entirely invented. "
It`s an allegation.
"Among the many games that are played in the Historia Augusta is the invention of no less than 130 fake documents. "
It`s an allegation as well.
"It can certainly not be excluded that the Historia Augusta was in fact composed during the reign of Julian the Apostate (361-363), who briefly attempted to revive paganism. The text may have been part of an attempt to deduce from the splendor of Roman history that the pagan traditionalists were right, and Christianity was, from an historical point of view, an unRoman activity"
So we could put Ammianus Marcellinus in V or VIII century. Why not?
"At least one ruler has been invented, remarkable omens are introduced, and anecdotes are added."
Nevertheless SHA information confirms by other authors (and by coins - see the news about "New Domitian"). The authors of SHA wrote in the early IV century (under Diocletian), and we have no many literary sources earlier SHA, describing III century. But we trust only later sources. Why? Almost all antique writers added remarkable omens and anecdotes, but only SHA is unbelievable! By the way what do you think: Suetonius is more reliable?
"The "minor" biographies (i.e. the lives of co-rulers and usurpers) are usually entirely invented. "
It`s an allegation.
"Among the many games that are played in the Historia Augusta is the invention of no less than 130 fake documents. "
It`s an allegation as well.
"It can certainly not be excluded that the Historia Augusta was in fact composed during the reign of Julian the Apostate (361-363), who briefly attempted to revive paganism. The text may have been part of an attempt to deduce from the splendor of Roman history that the pagan traditionalists were right, and Christianity was, from an historical point of view, an unRoman activity"
So we could put Ammianus Marcellinus in V or VIII century. Why not?
a.k.a. Yuriy Mitin
