Late Antique Historiography

Isaurian history

Title(s):
  • Isaurian history
  • Ἰσαυρικά
    (Isaurika, Isaurian history)
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Period covered:
Earliest history-author's time?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
According to the Suda, s.v. Καπίτων Λύκιος, the Isaurica consisted of eight books. Yet, Stephanus of Byzantion, Ethnica s.v. Ψιμάδα, refers to book 15. If we do not consider this a copyist's mistake, we have to accept a greater length (15, 18 books?).
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Bibliography:
  • P. Amory (1997) People and identity in Ostrogothic Italy. Cambridge - New York.
  • H. Elton (2000) 'The nature of the sixth-century Isaurians'. In: Ethnicity and culture in Late Antiquity, ed. S. Mitchell - G. Greatrex. London: 293-307.
  • E. Schwartz (1899) 'Capito aus Lykien'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 3: 1527.