Late Antique Historiography

Histories

Title(s):
  • Histories
  • Ἱστορίαι
    (Historiai, Histories)
Author:
Period covered:
572-591
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
The work of John of Epiphania began with a reference to Agathias as his predecessor.
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Fragments:
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Bibliography:
  • P. Allen (1981) Evagrius Scholasticus the Church historian (Spicilegium Sacrum Lovaniense: Études et documents, 41). Leuven.
  • B. Bleckmann (2021) Die letzte Generation der griechischen Geschichtsschreiber: Studien zur Historiographie im ausgehenden 6. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart.
  • D. Brodka (2013) 'Johannes von Epiphaneia: Klassizismus und literarische Tradition in der spätantiken Geschichtsschreibung'. Classica Cracoviensia 16: 19-28.
  • M.R. Cataudella (2003) 'Historiography in the East'. In: Greek and Roman historiography in Late Antiquity: Fourth to sixth century A.D., ed. G. Marasco. Leiden - Boston: 391-447.
  • M.H. Dodgeon, S.N.C. Lieu, G. Greatrex (2002) The Roman Eastern frontier and the Persian wars. Volume Two: A.D. 363-630, A narrative sourcebook. London.
  • J. Howard-Johnston (2010) Witnesses to a world crisis: Historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century. Oxford.
  • G. Moravcsik (1958) Byzantinoturcica: Die byzantinischen Quellen der Geschichte der Türkvölker. Berlin: 317.
  • T. Olajos (1988) Les sources de Théophylacte Simocatta historien. Leiden - Budapest: 20-27.
  • M. Whitby (1997) 'Greek historical writing after Procopius: Variety and vitality'. In: The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. Volume One: Problems in the literary source materials, ed. A. Cameron - L.I. Conrad. Princeton: 25-80.
  • M. Whitby (2000) The Ecclesiastical history of Evagrius Scholasticus (Translated texts for historians, 33). Liverpool.
  • M. Whitby (1988) The emperor Maurice and his historian Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan warfare. Oxford.