Late Antique Historiography

Breviarium

Title(s):
  • Breviarium
  • De breviario rerum gestarum populi Romani
    (De breviario rerum gestarum populi Romani, On the summary of the deeds of the Roman people)
  • Brevarium de breviario rerum gestarum populi Romani
    (Brevarium de breviario rerum gestarum populi Romani, Abreviation of the summary of the deeds of the Roman people)
Author:
Period covered:
753 B.C.-364
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Secular history (breviarium)
Remarks:
The work was addressed to the emperor Valens.
Edition - Translation:
  • M.-P. Arnaud-Lindet (1994) Festus: Abrégé des hauts faits du peuple romain. Paris.
  • J.W. Eadie (1967) The Breviarium of Festus: A critical edition with historical commentary. London.
  • A. Bettenworth, P. Schenk (2020) Rufius Festus, Kleine Geschichte des römischen Volkes. Sammlung Tusuculum. Berlin.
  • M. Alexianu, R. Curcă, N. Zugravu (2003) Festus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani, traducere de Marius Alexianu şi Roxana Curcă, ediţie ingrijită, studiu introductiv, note şi comentarii, indice de Nelu Zugravu, Iaşi.
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Bibliography:
  • B. Baldwin (1978) 'Festus the historian'. Historia 27: 197-217,
  • S. Costa (2016) Rufio Festo, Breviario di storia romana. Milan.
  • W. Den Boer (1972) Some minor Roman historians. Leiden: esp. 173-223.
  • J.W. Eadie (1967) 'The Breviarium of Festus: A fragment in Copenhagen'. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 14: 93-95.
  • M.L. Fele (1988) Lexicon Breviarii Rufi Festi (Alpha Omega, 82). Hildesheim.
  • M.L. Fele (2009) Il breviarium di Rufio Festo. Testo, traduzione e commento filologico con una introduzione sull'autore e l'opera. Hildesheim
  • A. Garroni (1915) 'L'iscrizione di Rufio Festo Avieno e l'autore del Breviarium Historiae Romanae'. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma 43: 123-135.
  • G. Kelly (2010) 'The Roman world of Festus’ Breviarium'. In: Unclassical traditions: Alternatives to the classical past in Late Antiquity, eds. C. Kelly - R. Flower - M.S. Williams. Cambridge: 72-89.
  • I. Moreno-Ferrero (1986-1987) 'Elementos biográphicos en el Breviario de Festo'. Studia historica: Historia antigua 4-5: 173-188.
  • M. Peachin (1985) 'The purpose of Festus' Breviary'. Mnemosyne 38: 158-160.
  • M. Raimondi (2006) 'Il Breviarium di Festo e il funzionariato cappadoce alla corte di Valente'. Historia 55: 191-206.
  • P.L. Schmidt (1989) '§539.1 Rufius Festus: Breviarium de breviario rerum gestarum populi Romani'. In: Restauration und Erneuerung: Die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr., ed. R. Herzog (Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, 8.5). Munich: 207-210.