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HistoÌria Augusta. Vol. II: Vidas de HeÌlvio Pertinaz, DiÌdio Juliano, Severo, PesceÌnio Nigro, CloÌdio Albino, Antonino Caracala, Antonino Geta, OpiÌlio Macrino, DiaduÌmeno Antonino, Antonino HeliogaÌbalo
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- SimoÌes Rodrigues, Nuno
- Series:
- Classica Digitalia: Autores Gregos e Latinos: textos
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Coimbra Coimbra University Press 2021
- Language Note:
- Portuguese
- Summary:
- This second volume includes the Lives of Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus, Pescenius Niger, Clodius Albinus, Caracala, Geta, Macrinus, Didadumnus and Heliogabalus. Thus, taking into account Pertinax's accession to the imperial throne and Heliogabalus' death, the volume covers the period of Rome's history from 192 to 222 AD. If we take into account the birth of Pertinax (A.D. 122), the time covered by this set of lives is therefore about a century. The period covered by the lives gathered here coincides with that of the establishment of the Severan dinasty, which followed that of the Antonines, emperors that marked at various levels the Roman imperial apogee. Of all the biographies gathered in this volume, that of Heliogabalus should be, by the wealth of descriptions, the one that best corresponds to a certain contemporary - though not necessarily factual - imaginary of Ancient Rome: a civilisation marked by excess, exoticism, cruelty and perversion.
- Este segundo volume inclui as biografias de Pertinaz, DiÌdio Juliano, SetiÌmio Severo, PesceÌnio Nigro, CloÌdio Albino, Caracala, Geta, Macrino, DiaduÌmeno e HeliogaÌbalo. Assim, levando em conta a acessaÌo de Pertinaz ao trono imperial e a morte de HeliogaÌbalo, o volume abrange o periÌodo da HistoÌria de Roma que vai de 192 a 222 d.C. Mas, se tomarmos como ponto de partida o nascimento de Pertinaz (122 d.C.), o conjunto perfaz cerca de um seÌculo. O periÌodo abrangido pelas Vidas aqui reunidas coincide com o da instituiçaÌo da dinastia dos Severos, que se seguiu aÌ dos Antoninos, que marcou a vaÌrios niÌveis o apogeu imperial romano. De todas as biografias reunidas neste volume, a de HeliogaÌbalo deveraÌ ser, pela riqueza das descriçoÌes, a que melhor corresponde a um certo imaginaÌrio contemporaÌneo - ainda que naÌo necessariamente factual - da Roma Antiga: uma civilizaçaÌo pautada pela desmesura, pelo excesso, pelo exotismo, pela crueldade e pela perversaÌo.
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