Late Antique Historiography

Roman history

Title(s):
  • Roman history
Author:
Period covered:
Unknown
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
  • Form (translation)
Remarks:
Symmachus refers to a work that translated into Latin a Greek work on Roman history. It is widely accepted that it was an epitome of Aristotle's Constitutions (cf. Callu 1982: 228), but this interpretation relies on a misunderstanding of the Latin (see Van Hoof and Van Nuffelen 2020).
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (2020) The fragmentary Latin histories of Late Antiquity (A.D. 300-650): Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
Fragments:
  • Symmachus, Letter 3.11.3
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • H. Bardon (1956) La littérature latine inconnue: L'époque impériale: 280.
  • J.-P. Callu (1982) Symmaque: Correspondance. Volume Two: Books III-V (Collection des Universités de France). Paris.
  • J.-P. Callu (1975) 'Les constitutions d'Aristote et leur fortune au Bas-Empire'. Revue des études latines 33: 268-315.
  • Al. Cameron (2011) The last pagans of Rome. Oxford: 564-565.
  • A. Pellizzari (1998) Commento storico al libro III dell’Epistolato di Q. Aurelio Simmaco: Introduzione, commento storico, testo, traduzione, indici (Biblioteca di studi antichi, 81). Pisa: 88-89.
  • W. Schetter (2020) 'Iun-/Iulius Naucellius' in: Jean-Denis Berger, Jacques Fontaine, Peter Lebrecht Schmidt (eds), Die Literatur im Zeitalter des Theodosius (374-430 n. Chr.). Volume 1. Munich: 267-269.
  • W. Speyer (1959) Naucellius und sein Kreis: Studien zu den epigrammata bobiensia (Zetemata, 21). Munich: 3.
  • K. Thraede (1968) 'Sprachlich-stilistisches zu Briefen des Symmachus'. Rheinische Museum 111: 260–289.