Late Antique Historiography

Consularia from 388 to 439

Title(s):
  • Consularia from 388 to 439
Author:
Period covered:
388-439
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Hypothetical
Genre:
  • Chronicle (consularia)
Remarks:
Socrates of Constantinople used the Consularia Constantinopolitana until 385, and used another consular list until the end of his history. In line with Geppert (1898), Becker e.a. (2016), assigns the passages to a single Constantinopolitan consularia.
Edition - Translation:
  • M. Becker, B. Bleckmann, J. Gross, M.A. Nickbakht (2016) Consularia Constantinopolitana und verwandte Quellen (Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike, G1-4). Paderborn: 159-249.
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Sources:
Bibliography:
  • F. Geppert (1898) Die Quellen des Kirchenhistorikers Socrates Scholasticus. Leipzig.
  • G.C. Hansen (1995) Sokrates: Kirchengeschichte (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, NF 1). Berlin: ii-iii.
  • P. Van Nuffelen (2004) 'Socrate de Constantinople et les chroniques'. Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik 54: 53-75.