Excerpta et fragmenta / / Priscus Panita; Pia Carolla.

Best known for his longest excerptum about Attila and the Huns, Priscus Panita survives mostly in Excerpta Constantiniana de legationibus. He describes with an impressive amount of details a Byzantine embassy and the secret plot to kill Attila in 448/449 A.D., when Priscus himself was involved in a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Classics and Near East Studies 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2008
Year of Publication:2019
Language:Ancient Greek
Series:Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ,
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Physical Description:1 online resource (140 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Hoc libro Continentur --
Praefatio --
Librorum conspectus --
Sigla atque breviata --
Testimonia de Prisco --
Excerpta de legationibus --
Excerpta de obsidionibus --
Excerpta de legationibus (sequuntur) --
Excerpta incertae sedis --
Fragmenta dubia --
Index nominum --
Index locorum --
Index fontium fragmentarum dubiorum --
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Summary:Best known for his longest excerptum about Attila and the Huns, Priscus Panita survives mostly in Excerpta Constantiniana de legationibus. He describes with an impressive amount of details a Byzantine embassy and the secret plot to kill Attila in 448/449 A.D., when Priscus himself was involved in a scary situation. He also investigates Theodosius II's age around other borders, such as Caucasus and Aegypt.After a new collation and full reconsideration of all manuscripts, this critical edition provides a complete demonstration of the stemma codicum and an accurate apparatus, both philological desiderata for long. The text is plain and fluent, a good example of V century A.D. rhetorical prose, with a wide range of loci similes in classic authors and a special skill for variatio. From a historical point of view, some nations from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa find in Priscus a unique source for their roots.
Diese Exzerpte – von einem Griechen verfasst, der Teilnehmer einer Gesandtschaft bei Attila war – spiegeln nachhaltige Eindrücke von Gesellschaft, Macht und Intrigen im Byzanz des 5. Jh. wider, die sich in hohem Maße auf Attila und die Hunnen allgemein beziehen. Vom historischen Standpunkt aus gesehen finden einige Nationen von Osteuropa, Asien und Afrika bei Priscus einzigartige Quellen für ihre Wurzeln. Für Philologen füllt diese Edition, die mit einem sorgfältig erarbeiteten textkritischen Apparat und einer vollständigen Darstellung der handschriftlichen Überlieferung ausgestattet ist, eine Lücke im Textangebot.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110972412
9783110636178
ISSN:1864-399X
DOI:10.1515/9783110972412
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
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