Late Antique Historiography

Fasti

Title(s):
  • Fasti
  • Consularis liber
    (Consularis liber, Book of consuls)
  • Fasti
    (Fasti, Lists)
Author:
Period covered:
Romulus-author's time
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • Chronicle (consularia)
  • List (fasti)
  • Poetry (general)
Remarks:
Ausonius' Fasti were published soon after his consulate (379) in 382, since the author states that his own titulus is to be found fourth from the end (Green 1991: 555-556). We do not know if this was just a list of consuls or if it included brief notices as well.
Edition - Translation:
  • R.P.H. Green (1991) The works of Ausonius. Oxford: 160-161.
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Bibliography:
  • A. Coskun (2002) 'Die sogenannten "Fasti" und der "Consularis liber" des Ausonius, mit einem Exkurs zur Karriere des Proculus Gregorius'. Philologus 146: 350-359.
  • F. Della Corte (1971) 'I Fasti di Ausonio'. In: Studi di storiografia antica in memoria di Leonardo Ferrero. Turin: 203-208 = Opuscola 6 (1973): 331-336.
  • R.P.H. Green (1999) 'Ausonius' Fasti and Caesares revisited'. The Classical Quarterly 49.2: 573-578.