Late Antique Historiography

On the Persian war

Title(s):
  • On the Persian war
  • Περσικά
    (Persika, On the Persian war)
Author:
Period covered:
502-506?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Poetry (historical epic)
Remarks:
The name of Colluthus is attested in different forms: cf. Livrea (1968: xi-xii). The Rape of Helen is the only surviving work of his production. The Suda does not cite it, but mentions a poem on the Calydonian boar hunt (Καλυδωνιακά), unspecified encomia in hexameters (ἐγκώμια δι’ ἐπῶν) and the Persika.  
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Suda, κ 1951
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • A. Adler (1933) Suidae Lexicon. Volume Three (Lexicographi Graeci recogniti et apparatu critico instructi, 1). Leipzig: 146.
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  • B. Harries (2006) 'The drama of pastoral in Nonnus and Colluthus'. In: Brill's companion to Greek and Latin pastoral, ed. M. Fantuzzi - Th. Papanghelis. Leiden: 515-548.
  • E. Livrea (1968) Colluto, Il ratto di Elena: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commentario. Bologna.
  • E. Livrea (1991) 'Colluto "umorista"?'. In: Studia Hellenistica. Volume Two, ed. E. Livrea. Florence: 561-569.
  • E. Magnelli (2008) 'Colluthus' "Homeric" Epyllion'. Ramus 37: 151-172.
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  • P. Orsini (1972) Colluthus: L'enlèvement d'Hélène. Paris.