Late Antique Historiography

Various extracts

Title(s):
  • Various extracts
  • Ἐκλογαὶ διάφοροι
    (Eklogai diaphoroi, Various extracts)
Author:
Period covered:
Classical and Hellenistic period?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (miscellany)
  • Form (compilation)
Remarks:
Focke (1911: 57-69) and Henry (1938: 291-293) suggest to identify Sopater the sophist with the Neo-Platonist philosopher from Apamea (late third - early fourth century); Glöckner (1927: 1002-1006) identifies him with an Athenian rhetorician of the fourth century; Janiszewski (2006: 83-84) links him to our Sopater of Alexandria. The same entry mentions a Selection from histories, which could be identified with the Various extracts.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Photius, Bibliotheca, cod. 161
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • F. Focke (1911) Quaestiones Plutarcheae de Vitarum parallelarum textus historia. Münster.
  • H. Glöckner (1927) 'Sopatros (10)'. In Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 3A: 1002-1006.
  • R. Henry (1938) 'Remarques à propos des "codices" 161 et 239 de Photius'. L'Antiquité Classique 7: 291-293.
  • R. Henry (1960) Photius: Bibliothèque. Volume Two: Codices 84-185. Paris: 123-128.
  • 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: 80-81, 83-84.