Stéphane Ratti, associate professor of classics, is professor emeritus of late antiquity history at the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté. Author of numerous remarkable works, he comes to translate, present and annotate, in La Pléiade, “Histoire Auguste et autres historinaires païens”.
FIGAROVOX. - What is the
Histoire Auguste
and what is the history of this text?
Stephane RATTI. -
It is, in Late Antiquity, with Ammien Marcellin, the very last historiographical work of Latin language of scale which is pagan.
With Hugues Pradier, director at Gallimard of the Pléiade Library, we had, for a moment, thought of giving our volume the title “Last pagan historians”.
The title
Histoire Auguste
means History of the Augustes, that is to say that of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (117-138) to the accession of Diocletian in 284. It is the most complete Latin work and the most detailed we have on the princes of the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
History
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