Late Antique Historiography

Life of Annianus

Title(s):
  • Life of Annianus
  • Bellum Attilae
    (Bellum Attilae, War of Attila)
Author:
Period covered:
At least 450-451
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Projected
Genre:
  • Biography (general)
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
Remarks:
In his letter, Sidonius Apollinaris reveals that he was asked by Prosper of Orléans to write a life of Annianus of Orléans and to cover specifically the raid of Attila ending in the battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451). The work may also have been a history in which Annianus played a major role. Sidonius did not circulate the work and abandoned it in favour of a panegyric of Annianus. The extant Vita Anniani might go back to this abandoned work of Sidonius.
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Bibliography:
  • W.B. Anderson (1965) Sidonius: Letters III-IX (The Loeb Classical Library), London.
  • S.J.B. Barnish (1992) 'Old Kaspars: Attila's invasion of Gaul in literary sources'. In: Fifth-century Gaul: A crisis of identity, ed. J. Drinkwater - H. Elton, Cambridge, 38-47.