Late Antique Historiography

History

Title(s):
  • History
Author:
Period covered:
Valerianus I-Constantine I
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Excerpts
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
The excerpts are often ascribed to an anonymous author, or alternatively to Eustathius of Epiphaneia. The last option is very unlikely and it is virtually certain that the fragments derive from the History of Peter the Patrician (cf. Banchich 2015).
Edition - Translation:
  • FHG IV, 190-199
  • T.M. Banchich (2015) The lost History of Peter the Patrician: An account of Rome's imperial past from the age of Justinian. London.
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Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • B. Bleckmann (1992) Die Reichskrise des III. Jahrhunderts in der spätantiken und byzantinischen Geschichtsschreibung: Untersuchungen zu den nachdionischen Quellen der Chronik des Johannes Zonaras. Munich.
  • B. Girotti (2005) 'Valeriano, "ignobili servitute consenuit"'. In: Historiae Augustae colloquium Barcinonense (Atti dei Convegni sulla Historia Augusta, 9), ed. G. Bonamente - M. Mayer. Bari: 195-216.
  • A.M. Martolini (2010) 'I frammenti dell'"Anonymus post Dionem": Pietro Patrizio nell'ambito della storiografia tardoantica e bizantina'. In: Dalla storiografia ellenistica alla storiografia tardoantica, ed. U. Roberto - L. Mecella. Rubbettino: 209-237.
  • S. Mazzarino (1974) Antico, tardoantico ed èra costantiniana. Bari.
  • B. Scardiglia (2001) 'Mazzarino e la storiografia greca del III secolo d.C.'. Studia Historica 19: 93-98.