Roman history

Title(s):
  • Roman history
  • Romana
    (Romana, Roman history)
  • De summa temporum vel origine actibusque gentis Romanorum
    (De summa temporum vel origine actibusque gentis Romanorum, A summing-up of time or on the origin and actions of the people of the Romans)
  • De adbreviatione chronicorum
    (De adbreviatione chronicorum, An abbreviation of chronicles)
Author:
Period covered:
Adam-551
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Secular history (breviarium)
Remarks:
The Roman history is a breviarium that opens with an account of world and sacred history and then focuses on Roman history.
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Bibliography:
  • (1995) Clavis patrum Latinorum (CPL) 912
  • M.L. Fele (2020) Le fonti dei Romana di Iordanes. 1 : Dalle origini del mondo ad Augusto (Rom. 1-257). Florence.
  • G. Galdi (2013) Syntaktische Untersuchungen zu Jordanes: Beiträge zu den Romana (Spudasmata, 150). Hildesheim.
  • B. Luiselli (1976) 'Sul De summa temporum di Iordanes'. Romanobarbarica 1: 83-134.
  • L. Van Hoof, P. Van Nuffelen (2017) 'The historiography of crisis: Jordanes, Cassiodorus and Justinian in mid sixth-century Constantinople'. The Journal of Roman Studies 107: 275-300.