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Historia Augusta

Historia Augusta

A collection of imperial biographies claiming six different Diocletian-era authors, now generally believed by modern scholarship to be the work of one much later writer freely mixing genuine sources with invented documents and letters, remains an indispensable and notoriously unreliable source for the third century.

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