Life of Probus

Title(s):
  • Life of Probus
  • Vita Probi
    (Vita Probi, Life of Probus)
Period covered:
Lives of the emperors Probus (276-282) and Carinus (283-285)?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Biography (general)
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
Remarks:
The Suda calls Onasimus a historian, but does not name a work. The identification of Onasimus and the biographer Onesimus mentioned in the Historia Augusta is doubted. If that doubt is justified, Onasimus is the author of an unknown work.
Edition - Translation:
  • FGrHist 216
  • BNJ 226
  • B. Bleckmann, J. Gross (2016) Historiker der Reichskrise des 3. Jahrhunderts. Volume One (Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike, A 1/4, 6/8). Paderborn.
Fragments:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw: 332-352.
  • R. Syme (1976) 'Bogus authors'. In: Bonner Historia-Augusta-Colloquium 1972-1974, ed. G. Alföldy - J. Straub (Antiquitas, 4). Bonn: 311-321.
  • G. Zecchini (1995) 'La storiografia greca dopo Dexippo e l'Historia Augusta'. In: Historiae Augustae colloquium Maceratense, ed. G. Bonamente - G. Pac. (Historiae Augustae colloquia, NS, 3). Bari: 297-309.