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The Religious Background of the ‘Historia Avgvsta’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2011

Harold Mattingly
Harold Mattingly
Affiliation:
British Museum, London.
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Extract

The object of this short note is to check the date of the ‘Historia Augusta,’ which is usually determined from a number of very special allusions, by its attitude towards a matter of universal interest — religion.

Type
Research Article
Information
Harvard Theological Review , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , July 1946 , pp. 213 - 215
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1946

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References

1 I shall speak conventionally of the ‘writers’ of the ‘Historia,’ but assume as a working hypothesis that the work, as we have it, is one.

2 But see also below.

3 Sev. Alex. 29.2, 43, 6.7.

4 Sev. Alex. 49.6.

5 Aurelian, 20.5.

6 Firmus, etc. 8.

7 Cf. Claudius 13.1–3: Constantius Chlorus was son of Claudia, who was daughter of Crispus, brother of Claudius. The earlier version made Constantius a son of Claudius.

8 The ‘Historia Augusta: Re date and purpose.’ Cambridge, 1926.

9 E.g. recent consulship of Furius Placidus (Aurelian, 15.4) perhaps to be identified with a consul of A.D. 343: Vopiscus's grandfather is represented as a contemporary of Diocletian (Carus, 14, etc.).