Late Antique Historiography

On ceremonies

Title(s):
  • On ceremonies
  • Σύνταγμα τῆς τοῦ παλατίου καταστάσεως
    (Suntagma tēs tou palatiou katastaseōs, A collection on palace order)
  • Περὶ πολιτικῆς καταστάσεως
    (Peri politikēs katastaseōs, On the political order of affairs)
Author:
Period covered:
Constantine-Justinian
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (antiquarianism)
  • Collection
Remarks:
The work collected descriptions of imperial ceremonies.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Constantine Porphyrogenitus, On ceremonies 1.84-95
  • John of Lydia, On the magistracies of the Roman state 2.25
  • A. Laniado (1997) 'Un fragment peu connu de Pierre le Patrice'. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 90: 405-412.
  • Suda, π 1406
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • P. Antonopoulos (1990) Πέτρος Πατρίκιος: Ὁ Βυζαντινός διπλωμάτης ἀξιωματοῦχος καί συγγραφέας (Ἰστορικές Μονογραφίες, 7). Athens.
  • T.M. Banchich (2015) The lost History of Peter the Patrician: An account of Rome's imperial past from the age of Justinian. London.
  • M. Dubuisson, J. Schamp (2006) Jean le Lydien: Des magistratures de l'état romain (Collection des Universités de France). Paris.
  • B.G. Niebuhr (1829) Constantini Porphyrogeniti De ceremoniis aulae Byzantinae libri duo Graece et Latine (Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantiae, 16). Bonn.
  • M. Dubuisson, J. Schamp (2006) Jean le Lydien: Des magistratures de l'état romain (Collection des Universités de France). Paris.