Dark Words and Dark Intentions in the Vita Heliogabali
Penetrale/Penetralia (HA, Hel. 6, 6-7, 2)
Abstract
This study analyzes the relationships of various texts from the Historia Augusta (A. 20.3, Hel. 6, 6-7, 2) with the lexicographical genre that flourished in Latin literature of the 4th cent. CE. The use of the term penetrale (pl. penetralia) in a section of the Vita Heliogabali serves the author to include these relationships in the process by which the Historia Augusta submits certain episodes of these imperial biographies to an ironic reformulation.
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