Late Antique Historiography

Lausiac history

Title(s):
  • Lausiac history
  • Ἡ πρὸς Λαῦσον ἱστορία
    (Hē pros Lauson historia, The Lausiac history)
  • Βίος τῶν ἁγίων πατέρων
    (Bios tōn hagiōn paterōn, Life of the holy fathers)
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Period covered:
Late 4th-early 5th c.
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
Honigmann (1953: 107-108) demonstrates that Heraclidas was the writer of recension B of the Lausiac history of Palladius. Heraclidas of Nyssa remodeled the original Lausiac history, producing a text that is much longer. There exists a Latin version.
Edition - Translation:
  • I. Meursius (1616) (ed.) Palladii ep. Helenopoleos Historia Lausiaca Graece. Leiden.
  • Patrologia Latina 74: 243-342
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Bibliography:
  • C. Butler (1904) The Lausiac history of Palladius. Two Volumes. Cambridge.
  • B. Halkin (1930) 'L'Histoire Lausiaque, et les Vies grecques de s. Pachome'. Analecta Bollandiana 48: 264-268.
  • E. Honigmann (1953) 'Heraclidas of Nyssa'. Patristic Studies [StT 173], Rome: 104-122.
  • A. Wellhausen (2003) Die lateinische Übersetzung der Historia Lausiaca des Palladius (Patristische Texte und Studien, 51). Berlin.