Late Antique Historiography

Patria of Heliopolis

Title(s):
  • Patria of Heliopolis
  • Πάτρια ῾Ηλιουπόλεως
    (Patria Hēlioupoleōs, Patria of Heliopolis)
Author:
Period covered:
Unknown
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (patria)
Remarks:
As Janiszewski (2006: 246) underlines, it is not possible to determine which Heliopolis Ulpianus wrote about: indeed, he could describe the Egyptian Heliopolis as well as the Syrian one.
Edition - Translation:
  • FGrHist 676
  • BNJ 676
  • L. Focanti (2018) The fragments of the late antique patria. Diss. Ghent - Groningen.
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Bibliography:
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw: 240-247.