Late Antique Historiography

History

Title(s):
  • History
  • Ἱστορίας λόγοι τρεῖς
    (Historias logoi treis, Three books of history)
Author:
Period covered:
457-491
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
Usually qualified as classicizing history, Candidus also narrated ecclesiastical events.
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: 464-471.
  • FHG IV, 135-137
  • A. Laniado (2005) 'Un fragment méconnu de Candide l'isaurien'. Athenaeum 93: 143-148.
Fragments:
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • H. Brandt (2014) 'Zur historiographischen Konzeption des Isaurers Candidus'. In: Griechische Profanhistoriker des fünften nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts, ed. B. Bleckmann - T. Stickler. Stuttgart: 161-170.
  • W.B. Burgess (1998) 'Kandidos Isauros and his sources'. Byzantine Studies/Études byzantines 3: 65-73.
  • M. Meier (2014) 'Candidus: Um die Geschichte der Isaurer'. In: Griechische Profanhistoriker des fünften nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts, ed. B. Bleckmann - T. Stickler. Stuttgart: 171-194.
  • U. Roberto (2000) 'Sulla tradizione storiografica di Candido Isaurico'. Mediterraneo antico 3: 685-727.
  • U. Roberto (2005) Ioannis Antiocheni fragmenta ex Historia chronica (Texte und Untersuchungen, 154). Berlin: cxlvii-cxlix.
  • S.P. Shestakov (1894) Kandid isauriski. Odessa.
  • W.T. Treadgold (2010) The early Byzantine historians. Basingstoke.