Peter Van Nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University. His books include Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, Oxford University Press, 2012 and (with Lieve Van Hoof) The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620), Cambridge University Press, 2020, and (ed. with Lieve Van Hoof) Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris. An Inventory of Late Antique Historiography (A.D. 300–800), Brepols, 2020. Lieve Van Hoof is Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Ghent University. In addition to the books co-authored with Peter Van Nuffelen, her publications include Libanius: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2014, and Plutarch’s Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2010.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Life and context2. The Romana3. The Getica4. Sources5. Text and translation6. The medieval and humanist receptionTranslationA summary of all times, or On the origin and deeds of the Roman peopleOn the origin and deeds of the GetaeAppendicesMaps BibliographyIndices

‘This is a beautifully crafted book. It is also very thorough and meticulous, and the authors have taken great pains to introduce Jordanes to modern readers as comprehensively as possible… Peter Van Nuffelen and Lieve Van Hoof certainly deserve to be commended for their careful, meticulous and honest approach to Jordanes and all the riddles associated with him.’ Stanislav Doležal, Latomus