Late Antique Historiography

Liber genealogus

Title(s):
  • Liber genealogus
  • Liber genealogus
    (Liber genealogus, Book of genealogy)
  • Origo humani generis
    (Origo humanis generis, Origin of the human race)
  • De generationibus
    (De generationibus, On generations)
Author:
Period covered:
Adam-4th c.
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronography)
Remarks:
Three recensions exist, dated to 427, 438 and 455-463. The last recension is probably Catholic.
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Bibliography:
  • A. Berger, J. Fontaine, P.L. Schmidt (2020) Handbuch der Lateinischen Literatur der Antike. Sechster Band: Die Literatur im Zeitalter des Theodosius. Erster Teil: Fachprosa, Dichtung, Kunstprosa. Munich: 552-554,
  • H. Inglebert (1996) Les Romains chrétiens face à l'histoire de Rome: Histoire, christianisme et romanités en Occident dans l'Antiquité tardive (IIIe-Ve siècles). Paris.
  • R. Rouse, C. McNelis (2000) 'North-Africann literary activity: A Cyprian fragment, the stichometric lists and a Donatist compendium'. Revue d'histoire des textes 30: 189-238.