Late Antique Historiography

Narration

Title(s):
  • Narration
  • Διήγημα
    (Diēgēma, Narration)
Author:
Period covered:
5th c.
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Novel
  • Report
Remarks:
The work may date to the fifth century.
Edition - Translation:
  • F. Conca (1983) Nilus Ancyranus: Narrationes (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.
  • M.I. Link (2005) Die Erzählung des Pseudo-Neilos: Ein spätantiker Märtyrerroman. Munich.
  • D. Caner, S. Brock, R. Price (2010) History and hagiography from the late antique Sinai including translations of Pseudo-Nilus' Narrations, Ammonius' Report on the slaughter of the monks of Sinai and Rhaithou, and Anastasius of Sinai's Tales of the Sinai Fathers (Translated texts for historians, 53.) Liverpool.
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Bibliography:
  • (1979) Clavis Patrum Graecorum 6044
  • J.R. Morgan (2015) 'The monk's tale: The Narrtio of Pseudo-Nilus of Ancya'. In: Holy men and charatans in the ancient novel, eds. S. Panayotakis - G. Schmeling - M. Paschalis. Groningen: 167-194.