Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620)

Lieve Van Hoof is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University. Trained as a classicist, historian and political scientist, she studies the socio-political role of literature under the Roman Empire. Her publications include Plutarch's Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy (2010) and Libanius: A Critical Introduction (2014). Together with Peter Van Nuffelen, she has published the Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (2019), a full inventory of late antique historiography, and a translation of Jordanes' Romana and Getica (2020). Peter Van Nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, where he has led an European Research Council-funded team on late ancient historiography. He has published widely on Late Antiquity, early Christianity, and ancient religion and philosophy. Recent books are Orosius and the Rhetoric of History (2012) and Penser la tolérance dans l'Antiquité tardive (2018).

• Introduction; 1. Carminius; 2. Anonymous, On the origins of Padua; 3. Nicomachus Flavianus; 4. Nummius Aemilianus Dexter; 5. Protadius; 6. Naucellius; 7. Anonymous, History of Rome; 8. Pseudo-Hegesippus; 9. Sulpicius Alexander; 10. Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus; 11. Favius; 12. Consentius; 13. Ablabius; 14. Maximian of Ravenna; 15. Symmachus the Younger; 16. Marcellinus Comes; 17. Cassiodorus; 18. Roterius; 19. Secundus of Trent; 20. Maximus of Zaragoza; Spuria et dubia; 21. Bruttius; 22. Latinus Alcimus Alethius Rhetor; 23. Tyconius.

'The value of the volume lies not only in that the fragmentary material has been made available in a good edition and translation, but also in the comprehensive one, always stimulating discussion performance, which is certainly rightly based on a fundamental skepticism towards speculative constructions. Without a doubt, a standard work has been created here. A rich and useful Bibliography concludes the volume and provides an impression of the intensive research work that was reflected there.' Bruno Bleckmann, Histos