Late Antique Historiography

History

Title(s):
  • History
Author:
Period covered:
Julian's Persian campaign (363)
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Projected
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
Janiszewski (2006) and BNJ 266A argue for the identification of this work with the Parthian history of Seleucus of Emesa. We prefer to consider them two separate works: the name is too common to offer proof for such an identification. Moreover, Libanius only says that Seleucus has the material to write a history, not that he has actually written one.
 
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Libanius, Letter 1508
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • J. Arce (1974) 'On Festus' sources for Julian's Persian expedition'. Athenaeum 62/N.S. 52: 340-343
  • R. Blockley (1973) 'Festus' source on Julian's Persian expedition'. Classical Philology 68: 54-55.
  • G. Foerster (1922) Libanii Opera. Volume Eleven: Epistulae 840-1544 (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw: 136-144.