Una aportacion substancial para aproximarse al texto de la Historia Augusta: la nueva edicion Budé

Professor Marc Mayer, who teaches Latin and Latin philology at the Central University of Barcelona, reviews two volumes of the Historia Augusta recently published in the "Budé" Collection des Universites de France: the lives of Hadrian, Aelius and Antonius Pius by J.-P. Callu and the lives of Macrinus, Diadumenus and Elagabalus by R. Turcan. In both cases, O. Desbordes, the best living specialist of the manuscripts, established and edited the text. M. Mayer examines this aspect of the new edition generally and he compares with the standard version by Hohl (Teubner). According to this review, the Budé edition is better, especially the second volume.