Candidus (historian)
Candidus (Greek Candidos ) was a late antique historian who lived in the late 5th century.
All of our information about Candidus and his work comes from the library of Photios (Codex 79), which criticizes Candidus' style as inadequate and inelegant, and a brief entry in the Suda ( chi 245). According to the excerpt from Photios, Candidus came from Isauria ( Isauria Tracheia ) and worked as a notary ; however, he did not act in this position in the imperial service, but served some prominent Isaurians . He was an "Orthodox" Christian and, according to Photios, supported the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon .
Candidus wrote a Greek historical work in three books that covered the period from the accession to the throne of Emperor Leo I (457) to that of Anastasius (491), i.e. precisely the phase in which the Isaurians played a particularly important role in the Eastern Roman Empire. Candidus described the fall of the army master Aspar , the deposition of Romulus Augustulus and the reign of Zenon , a native Isaurian. Candidus was evidently hostile to this.
It is difficult to estimate whether and to what extent Candidus' histories were used by later authors. Umberto Roberto argues that Candidus was an important source for John of Antioch regarding the reign of Zeno.
expenditure
- Anthony Kaldellis: Candidates (748). In: Brill's New Jacoby (text, English translation, commentary and biographical sketch).
literature
- Roger C. Blockley : The Development of Greek Historiography: Priscus, Malchus, Candidus . In: G. Marasco (Ed.): Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity. Fourth to Sixth Century AD Leiden / Boston 2003, pp. 289-315.
- Hartwin Brandt : On the historiographical conception of the Isaurer Candidus. In: Bruno Bleckmann , Timo Stickler (ed.): Greek profane historians of the fifth century AD ( Historia-Einzelschriften Volume 228). Stuttgart 2014, pp. 161–170.
- Ludo Moritz Hartmann : Candidus 9 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 1474.
- John Robert Martindale: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 258.
- Umberto Roberto: Sulla tradizione storiografica di Candido Isauro . In: Mediterraneo antico 3, 2000, pp. 685-727.
- Warren Treadgold : The early Byzantine Historians . Basingstoke 2007, pp. 103-107.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Suda (chi 245) ( English ) Suda On Line: Byzantine Lexicography. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Candidus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | late antique historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century or 6th century |