Syme Ronald. Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta

Clarendon Press, 1971. — 316 p.The bogus names.
Ipse ille patriarcha.
Ignotus, the good biographer.
The secondary Vitae.
The nomen Antoninorum.
The fame of Trajan.
More about Marius Maximus.
The careers of Maximus and Dio.
The reign of Severus Alexander.
Gordianus, Pupienus, Balbinus.
The emperor Maximinus.
Emperors from Illyricum.
From Decius to Diocletian.
Illyricum in the epitomators.
The emperor Claudius Tacitus.
Literary talent.
Fiction and credulity.
Epilogue.