Late Antique Historiography

Selection from histories

Title(s):
  • Selection from histories
  • Ἐκλογή τῶν ἱστοριῶν
    (Eklogē tōn historiōn, Selection from histories)
Author:
Period covered:
Unknown
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (miscellany)
  • Form (compilation)
Remarks:
According to Janiszewski (2006: 84), Sopater of Alexandria can be identified with Sopater the Sophist. Though the identification is not unlikely, it cannot be proven. Nor is it certain that the Selection from histories and the Various extracts summarized by Photius are the same.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Suda, σ 848
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • A. Adler (1935) Suidae Lexicon. Volume Four (Lexicographi Graeci recogniti et apparatu critico instructi, 1). Leipzig: 407.
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw: 84.