Late Antique Historiography

History of Rome

Title(s):
  • History of Rome
Author:
Period covered:
Foundation of Rome-author's time?
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
  • Secular history (breviarium)
Remarks:
This work was a history of Rome. From Symmachus' correspondance we know that its author was working on it; we do not know if it was ever finished.
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 9.110
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • J.-P. Callu (2002) Symmaque: Correspondance. Volume Four: Livres III-V (Collection des Universités de France). Paris.
  • Al. Cameron (2011) The last pagans of Rome. Oxford: 635.
  • Al. Cameron (1964) 'The Roman Friends of Ammianus'. The Journal of Roman Studies 54: 15–28.
  • U. Eigler (2003) Lectiones Vetustatis: Römische Literatur und Geschichte in der lateinischen Literatur der Spätantike (Zetemata, 115). Munich: 196.
  • S. Roda (1981) Commento storico al libro IX dell’Epistolario di Q. Aurelio Simmaco (Biblioteca di studi antichi, 27). Pisa.