Late Antique Historiography

Books of history

Title(s):
  • Books of history
  • Ἱστορικοὶ λόγοι
    (Historikoi logoi, Books of history)
Author:
Period covered:
407-425
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
Olympiodorus wrote a history mainly of Western events, but composed from an Eastern perspective.
Edition - Translation:
  • R. Blockley (1983) The fragmentary classicising historians of the later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Volume Two: Text, translation and historiographical notes. Liverpool: 152-220.
  • R. Maisano (1979) Olimpiodoro Tebano: Frammenti storici. Naples.
  • FHG IV, 57-68
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Bibliography:
  • A. Baldini (2004) Ricerche di tarda storiografia (da Olimpiodoro di Tebe). Bologna.
  • A. Gillett (1993) 'The date and circumstances of Olympiodorus of Thebes'. Traditio 48: 1-29.
  • W. Haedicke (1939) 'Olympiodoros (11)'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 18.1: 201-207.
  • J.F. Matthews (1970) 'Olympiodorus of Thebes and the history of the West (A.D. 407-425)'. The Journal of Roman Studies 60: 79-97.
  • G. Moravcsik (1958) Byzantinoturcica: Die byzantinischen Quellen der Geschichte der Türkvölker. Berlin: 468-470.
  • F. Paschoud (2006) Eunape, Olympiodore, Zosime: Scripta minora. Recueil d'articles, avec addenda, corrigenda, mise à jour et indices. Bari.
  • T. Stickler (2014) 'Das Geschichtswerk des Olympiodor von Theben'. In: Griechische Profanhistoriker des fünften nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts, ed. B. Bleckmann - T. Stickler. Stuttgart: 85-102.
  • W.T. Treadgold (2004) 'The diplomatic career and historical work of Olympiodorus of Thebes'. The International History Review 26: 709-733.
  • P. Van Nuffelen (2004) 'Sozomenos und Olympiodoros von Theben, oder wie man Profangeschichte lesen soll'. Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 47: 81-97.
  • P. Van Nuffelen (2013) 'Olympiodorus of Thebes and Eastern triumphalism'. In: Theodosius II and his age, ed. C. Kelly. Cambridge: 130-152.
  • C. Zuccali (1993) 'Sulla cronologia dei "Materiali per una storia" di Olimpiodoro di Tebe'. Historia 42: 252-256.