Isaurian history

Title(s):
  • Isaurian history
  • Ἰσαυρικά
    (Isaurika, Isaurian history)
Period covered:
491-498
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Poetry (historical epic)
Remarks:
The poem described Anastasius’ Isaurian war (T1: ἔχει δὲ τὴν Ἰσαυρίας ἅλωσιν τὴν ὑπὸ Ἀναστασίου τοῦ βασιλέως γενομένην).
Edition - Translation:
  • FGrHist 283
  • BNJ 283
  • L. Focanti (2018) The fragments of the late antique patria. Diss. Ghent - Groningen.
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Bibliography:
  • F. Baumgarten (1881) De Christodoro poeta Thebano. Bonn.
  • F. Baumgarten (1899) 'Christodoros'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 3: 2450-2452.
  • Al. Cameron (1965) 'Wandering poets: A literary movement in Byzantine Egypt'. Historia 14: 470-509.
  • Al. Cameron (1970) Claudian: Poetry and propaganda at the court of Honorius. Oxford: esp. 478-482.
  • B. Croke (2008) 'Poetry and propaganda: Anastasius I as Pompey'. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 48: 447-466.
  • K. Feld (2005) Barbarische Bürger: Die Isaurier und das römische Reich (Millennium studies, 8). Berlin - New York.
  • R.C. McCail (1978) 'P.Gr. Vindob. 29788C: Hexameter Encomium on an unnamed Emperor'. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 98: 38-63.