Late Antique Historiography

History of Gallienus

Title(s):
  • History of Gallienus
  • Γαληνοῦ ἱστορίαι
    (Galēnou historiai, History of Galen)
Author:
Period covered:
253-268?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
Remarks:
The Suda attributes a History of Galenus to a certain Ephorus, a title that can be amended to Gallienus (emperor 253-268). Yet there are reasons to think that the entry mixes information relating to various other figures and that neither work nor author ever existed.
Edition - Translation:
  • FGrHist 212
  • BNJ 212
  • B. Bleckmann, J. Gross (2016) Historiker der Reichskrise des 3. Jahrhunderts. Volume One (Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der spätantike, A 1/4, 6/8). Paderborn.
  • FHG III, 664
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