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9780140443080
For all it's faults, including the brazen invention of many of the anecdotes it relates, the anonymous 'Augustan History' is the best source extant on Roman emperors between 117 & 284 AD. Anthony Birley's translation conveys the eloquence of the original.Birley, Anthony is the author of 'Lives of the Later Caesars The First Part of the Augustan History With Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan. Tr and Introd by Anthony Birley. 3', published 1976 under ISBN 9780140443080 and ISBN 0140443088.
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