Greek and Roman historiography in late antiquity : : fourth to sixth century A.D. / / edited by Gabriele Marasco.

This book is the first comprehensive study of Greek and Latin historiography from Constantine to the end of the sixth century AD. It aims to examine the development of late antique historiography, stressing chiefly the relations between pagan and Christian historians, their polemics but also their o...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston, Mass. : : Brill,, 2003.
Year of Publication:2003
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 540 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Gabriele Marasco
  • Historiography in the Age of Constantine / Friedhelm Winkelmann
  • Ammianus Marcellinus / Guy Sabbah
  • Minor Latin Historians of the Fourth Century A.D. / Giorgio Bonamente
  • The Historia Augusta and Pagan Historiography / A.R. Birley
  • The Church Historians after Eusebius / Peter Van Deun
  • Pagan Historiography and the Decline of the Empire / Wolf Liebeschuetz
  • The Church Historians (I): Socrates, Sozomenus, and Theodoretus / Hartmut Leppin
  • The Church Historians (II): Philostorgius and Gelasius of Cyzicus / Gabriele Marasco
  • The Development of Greek Historiography: Priscus, Malchus, Candidus / Roger Blockley
  • Latin Historiography: Jerome, Orosius and the Western Chronicles / G. Zecchini
  • Latin Historiography and the Barbarian Kingdoms / Brian Croke
  • Historiography in the East / M.R. Cataudella
  • The Church Historians and Chalcedon / Michael Whitby
  • The Beginning of Byzantine Chronography: John Malalas / Elizabeth Jeffreys
  • Index of Ancient Names / Gabriele Marasco.