The Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Vol. 2

Excerpt from The Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Vol. 2: With an English Translation
The traditional assignment of the several biographies to six different authors involves many difficulties and apparent inconsistencies and gives rise to various questions. Did each of the first four authors actually write a complete series of imperial biographies from which the various vitae of this collection have been selected? If so, who made the selection and on what principle was it made? Why did "Spartianus" write his Severus and "Capitolinus" his Marcus Aurelius, Verus, and Macrinus under Diocletian, and the former his Geta and the latter his Albinus, Maximini, and Gordiam under Constantine twenty years later?
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