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Lives of the Later Caesars: Augustan History, Part 1; Lives of Nerva and Trajan

One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. 

Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, Lives of the Later Caesars is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour that relates the first half of the History, including biographies of each emperor.  The History does contain many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete (albeit unreliable) account of the later Roman Caesars.