Anonymous post Dionem

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As anonymous post Dionem even Continuator Dionis called an unnamed known is the late antique historians called, of the historical work of Cassius Dio to the time of Constantine the Great further led.

Only 15 fragments from the Byzantine period surviving from the work, covering the period from Valerian to Constantine. These fragments are often associated with the historical work of Petros Patrikios, which is also only fragmentarily preserved , and who comes into question as the author; at least the anonymous will have used the histories of Petros. From Warren Treadgold also was an author Helikonios of Byzantium considered, but this is rather questionable.

Editions and translations

  • Carl Müller (Ed.): Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum . Vol. 4. Paris 1868, pp. 192-199.
  • Thomas M. Banchich: The Lost History of Peter the Patrician. Routledge, New York 2015. [English translation of the historical fragments of Petros Patrikios]

literature

  • Carl de Boor : Roman imperial history in Byzantine version I. The anonymus post Dionem . In: Byzantine Journal . 1, 1892, pp. 13-33.
  • Stephanie Brecht: The Roman Empire Crisis from its outbreak to its climax in the representation of Byzantine authors . Rahden 1999, ISBN 3-89646-831-6 , pp. 48-49, 56-58.
  • Michele R. Cataudella: Historiography in the East . In: Gabriele Marasco (Ed.): Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity. Fourth to Sixth Century AD Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-04-11275-8 , pp. 391-447, esp. 437-441.
  • Andrea M. Martolini: I frammenti dell 'Anonymus post Dionem / Pietro Patrizio nell'ambito della storiografia tardoantica e bizantina. In: Umberto Roberto, Laura Mecella (eds.): Dalla storiografia ellenistica alla storiografia tardoantica: Aspetti, problemi, prospettive. Soveria Mannelli 2010, pp. 209-237.

Remarks

  1. ↑ track of Cataudella, Historiography in the East , p 437ff.
  2. ^ Warren Treadgold: The early Byzantine Historians . Basingstoke 2007, p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Anonymous post Dionem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Continuator Dionis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author of late antiquity
DATE OF BIRTH between 3rd century and 8th century
DATE OF DEATH between 4th century and 8th century