History

Title(s):
  • History
Period covered:
At least 351-353
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Geography
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
The work may have been a history or a geographical treatise. As it mentions the usurper Magnentius (d. 353), it presumably postdates him. The historian was from Phocaea and the extant fragments focus on the Balkans and Germanic peoples.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Stephen of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Dekentioi, Gothoi, Moursa, Frangoi
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • A. Meineke (1849) Stephan von Byzanz: Ethnika. Berlin.