Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Liber memorialis
Liber memorialis
(Liber memorialis, Memory book)

Author:

Ampelius, Lucius

Period covered:

Mythical period-Roman Empire

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

The work offers a summary of cosmography, geography and mythology in the first 10 chapters and then goes on to offer an overview of Roman history until Trajan. The dating is uncertain. Linguistic arguments tend to put the work in the fourth century (Schmidt 1989: 176).

Edition - Translation:

M.-P. Arnaud-Lindet (1993) Ampelius: Aide-mémoire (Collection des Universités de France). Paris.
E. Assmann (1935) Lucii Ampelii Liber memorialis (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.
I. König (2011) Lucius Ampelius, Liber memorialis. Was ein junger Römer wissen soll. Darmstadt.

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Bibliography:

P.L. Schmidt (1989) '§530. L. Ampelius, Liber memorialis'. In: Restauration und Erneuerung: Die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr., ed. R. Herzog (Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, 8.5). Munich: 175-177.