Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

On the foundation of Constantinople

Author:

Troilus of Side

Period covered:

324-330

Language:

Greek

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The work is only attested in the Patria Konstantinoupoleos (1.58). If this renders its authenticity suspect, there was a rhetor called Troilus living Constantinople. This renders it likely that the work was not a history but an oration.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Patria Konstantinoupoleos 1.58

Users:

Sources:

Bibliography:

T. Preger (1907) Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum. Two Volumes. Leipzig.
P. Van Nuffelen (2004) Un héritage de paix et de piété: Étude sur les Histoires ecclésiastiques de Socrate et de Sozomène (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 142). Leuven.