History of king Theoderic

Title(s):
  • History of king Theoderic
  • Chronica Theodericiana
  • Anonymus Valesianus II
  • Ex libris chronicorum
    (Ex libris chronicorum, From books of a chronicle)
  • Excerpta Valesiana
  • De adventu Oduachar regis Cyrorum et Erulorum in Italia et quomodo rex Theodericus eum fuerit persecutus
    (On the arrival of Odoacer, king of the Sciri and Heruls, in Italy and how King Theoderic persecuted him)
Period covered:
493-526
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Excerpts
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
  • Biography (general)
Remarks:
The compilation is sometimes said to derive from Maximian of Ravenna, but Cassiodorus has also been suggested (Vitiello 2006, 2014). There is no proof for these suggestions, nor are they likely.
Edition - Translation:
  • I. König (1997) Aus der Zeit Theoderichs des Grossen: Theodericiana primum ab Henrico Valesio edita. Darmstadt.
  • J.C. Rolfe (1939) Ammianus Marcellinus. Volume Three (The Loeb Classical Library). Cambridge (MA) - London.
  • J. Moreau (1968) Excerpta Valesiana (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Second edition. Leipzig.
  • I. Lasala Navarro, M. del Pilar López Hernando (2009) 'Chronica Theodericiana, comentario, notas y traducción'. Habis 40: 251-279.
  • W. Bracke (1992) L'Anonymus Valesianus II. Ch. 79-96. Bologna.
  • M. Festy, M. Vitiello (2020) Anonyme de Valois II. L’Italie sous Odoacre et Théodoric. Texte établi et traduit, introduction et commentaire. Paris.
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Bibliography:
  • A. Goltz (2008) Barbar, König, Tyrann: Das Bild Theoderichs des Grossen in der Überlieferung des 5. bis 9. Jahrhunderts (Millennium studies, 12). Berlin.
  • M. Vitiello (2006) 'Cassiodoriana: Gli Excerpta Valesiana, l'aduentus e le laudes del principe Teoderico'. Chiron 36: 113-133.
  • M. Vitiello (2014) 'Theoderic and the Italic Kingdom in Cassiodorus’ "Gothic history": a hypothesis of reconstruction'. Klio 96: 645-663.