Late Antique Historiography

History

Title(s):
  • History
  • Historia
    (Historia, History)
Author:
Period covered:
Origins of Goths and Heruls
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
  • Geography
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
The nature of the work is disputed: it is often taken to be a full history of the Goths, but in all likelihood it was either a more limited work of geography or ethnography on Goths and Heruls, or Jordanes culled the fragments from an ethnographic digression in a wider work of history that was not specifically dedicated to the Goths.
Edition - Translation:
  • BNJ 708
  • FGrHist 708
  • L. Van Hoof, P. Van Nuffelen (2020) The Fragmentary Latin histories of Late Antiquity (A.D. 300-650): Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
Fragments:
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • B. Baldwin (1981) 'Sources for the Getica of Jordanes'. Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire 59: 141–45
  • M. Coumert (2007) Origines des peuples: Les récits du Haut Moyen Age occidental (550-850). Paris.
  • A. Gillett (2000) 'Jordanes and Ablabius'. Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 10: 479-500.
  • W. Goffart (1988) The narrators of barbarian history (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede and Paul the Deacon. Princeton.
  • R. Hachmann (1970) Goten und Skandinavien. Berlin.
  • P. Heather (1991) Goths and Romans: A.D. 332-489 (Oxford historical monographs). Oxford - New York.
  • T. Mommsen (1882) Iordanis Romana et Getica (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Auctores antiquissimi, 5.1). Berlin.
  • N. Wagner (1967) Getica: Untersuchungen zum Leben des Jordanes und zur fruehen Geschichte der Goten. Berlin.