Late Antique Historiography

History

Title(s):
  • History
  • Ἱστορία
    (Historia, History)
Author:
Period covered:
Octavian-Constantius II (at least 40 B.C. - 360)
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
The latter part of the work has been ascribed to an Anonymus post Dionem (Anonymous after Dio), but this should be rejected. See Banchich 2015 for a full discussion and bibliography. According to Bleckmann 1992, Peter is the origin of the Byzantine Leoquelle, a name that refers to shared material in Byzantine chronicles for the years 222-395.
Edition - Translation:
  • FHG IV, 181-191
  • T.M. Banchich (2015) The lost History of Peter the Patrician: An account of Rome's imperial past from the age of Justinian. London.
Fragments:
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • P. Antonopoulos (1990) Πέτρος Πατρίκιος: Ο βυζαντινός διπλωμάτης, αξιωματούχος και συγγραφέας. Athens.
  • B. Bleckmann (1992) Die Reichskrise des III. Jahrhunderts in der spätantiken und byzantinischen Geschichtsschreibung: Untersuchungen zu den nachdionischen Quellen der Chronik des Johannes Zonaras. Munich.
  • B. Bleckmann (1995) 'Zu den Quellen der Vita Gallieni duo'. In: Historiae Augustae colloquium Maceratense, ed. G. Bonamente - G. Paci. (Historiae Augustae colloquia, NS 3). Bari: 75-105.
  • L. Mecella (2019) 'Latinismi e cultura letteraria nei frammenti di Pietro Patrizio' in Alessandro Garcea e.a. (eds), Latin in Byzantium I, Turnhout: 361-375.