Abstract

Proclaiming the empire : interplay and issues at stake in Historia Augusta. Constituted on a repertory of references found in history, biography and literature, the image of the imperial power is established on a traditional pagan theology, jovian, herculean and solar. Augustus, the founder, is given an important part in that system of signs which contributes to the expression of the ideology of the Roman aristocracy, marginalized at the end of the IVth century.

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