Late Antique Historiography

Report on the war against Maximus

Title(s):
  • Report on the war against Maximus
Author:
Period covered:
383-388
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Projected
Genre:
  • Report
Remarks:
In a letter to Promotus, magister militum of the East, Libanius asks for a report on the war against the usurper Maximus. Libanius seems to presume that such a report by Promotus or another person exists.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Libanius, Letter 867.
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • G. Foerster (1922) Libanii Opera. Volume Eleven: Epistulae 840-1544 (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.