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The 13 pages that link to Historia Augusta, each with the reason it gives.

• SuetoniusRelated: Its biographical format and anecdotes invite comparison with Suetonius, though it is later and often unreliable.

• HadrianRelated: This often unreliable source supplies many details about Hadrian's character and court.

• Nerva–Antonine dynastyRelated: Its accounts preserve influential stories about these emperors, but their reliability varies sharply.

• CommodusRelated: Its portrait of Commodus helped transmit sensational stories whose reliability historians debate.

• Antoninus PiusRelated: Its account of Antoninus helped shape his traditional image as a virtuous and moderate emperor.

• Battle of NaissusRelated: Its account helped transmit the battle’s dramatic, disputed details.

• Claudius GothicusRelated: Its unreliable account supplies details about Claudius’s ancestry and accession.

• GallienusRelated: Its late and often unreliable biographies strongly influenced stories about Gallienus’s character and policies.

• Marcomannic WarsRelated: Its account of proposed new provinces helps explain later claims about Marcus Aurelius’s aims.

• Apollodorus of DamascusRelated: Its account of Apollodorus’s conflict with Hadrian is influential but cannot be treated as secure fact.

• ElagabalusRelated: Its biography adds sensational stories, but its claims require careful source criticism.

• The Twelve CaesarsRelated: Its later biographers adopted and transformed the imperial-life tradition associated with Suetonius.

• Battle of AbritusRelated: Its account contributes details about Decius’s final campaign, but its reliability is disputed.