Epitome

Title(s):
  • Epitome
  • Epitoma historiarum diversarum exemplorumque Romanorum
    (Epitome of various stories and exempla of the Romans)
Period covered:
Aeneas-1st c.
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Form (epitome)
  • Secular history (miscellany)
Remarks:
In the preface, the author says that he summarized in one volume 'decem Valerii Maximi libros'. It suggests that Paris read an edition of Valerius' work, which was divided in ten parts: however, modern editions present just nine books. As Faranda (1971: 13-14) writes, such a problem is very difficult to solve. According to Traube, the work of Valerius Maximus was preceded by an index: this part, along with the Introduction, could have been taken as a first book (Kappelmacher 1918: 688).
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Bibliography:
  • M. Galdi (1922) L'epitome nella letteratura latina. Napoli.
  • R. Guerrini (1981) Studi su Valerio Massimo. Pisa.
  • W. Heraeus (1893) Spicilegium criticum in Valerio Maximo eiusque epitomatoribus (Jahrbücher für classische Philologie, Supplement 19). Leipzig: 579-635.
  • A. Kappelmacher (1918) 'Iulius Paris (378)'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 10.1: 686-689.
  • P.L. Schmidt (1989) '§534.1 Iulius Paris: Epitoma historiarum diversarum exemplorumque Romanorum'. In: Restauration und Erneuerung: Die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr., ed. R. Herzog (Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, 8.5). Munich: 193-194.
  • J. Schnetz (1904) Neue Untersuchungen zu Valerius Maximus, seinen Epitomatoren und zum Fragmentum de praenominibus. Münnerstadt.
  • D.M. Schullian (1934) 'A new indirect tradition for the text of Valerius Maximus'. Transactions of the American Philological Association 65: 35-46.
  • T. Stangl (1894) 'Zu den Epitomatoren des Valerius Maximus'. Philologus 53: 572-576.