Historian

The Historia Augusta presents a carnival of outlandish stories that have puzzled historians for centuries. But these bizarre fabrications are not limited to irrelevant details. The ancient collection of Roman imperial biographies even invented emperors, blurring the lines between fact and fiction in the annals of Roman history. The Historia Augusta and its Fabricated Rulers of Antiquity The Historia Augusta is a collection of biographies of Roman emperors and usurpers, covering a time frame from 117 AD to 285 AD. While the collection itself claims to have been written by a group of six authors between 305 and 325 AD, historians believe it was actually written in the late 4th century AD by an unknown author or group of authors