Late Antique Historiography

Histories

Title(s):
  • Histories
  • Historiae
    (Historiae, Histories)
Author:
Period covered:
At least 410-424
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
Remarks:
Frigeridus is often thought to be the continuator of Sulpicius Alexander, but it is possible that he wrote a wider history covering earlier history too. He may have written as late as the middle of the fifth century.
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (2020) The fragmentary Latin histories of Late Antiquity (A.D. 300-650): Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
Fragments:
  • Gregory of Tours, Histories 2.8-9
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • B. Krusch, W. Levison (1951) Gregorii episcopi Turonensis Opera. Volume One: Libri Historiarum X (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 1). Berlin.
  • F. Paschoud (1997) 'Les descendants d'Ammien Marcellin: Sulpicius Alexander et Renatus Profutus Frigeridus'. In: Nomen Latinum: Mélanges de langue, de littérature et de civilisation latines offerts au professeur André Schneider, ed. D. Knoepfler. Neuchâtel: 141-147.
  • F. Paschoud (1998) 'Note sur les relations de trois historiens des IVe et Ve siècles: Sulpicius Alexander, Rénatus Profutus Frigeridus, et Olympiodore'. Antiquité tardive 6: 313-316.
  • P. Wynn (1997) 'Frigeridus, the British tyrants, and the early fifth-century barbarian invasions of Gaul and Spain'. Athenaeum 85: 69-117.
  • G. Zecchini (1993) Ricerche di storiografia latina tardoantica. Rome.
  • G. Zecchini (1983) Aezio: L’ultima difesa dell’Occidente romano (Monografie del Centro ricerche e documentazione sull’antichità classica, 8). Rome.