Ephorus the Younger
Ephorus the Younger was an ancient Greek historian . He lived during the imperial crisis of the 3rd century .
Ephoros, who like his namesake, the well-known historian Ephoros (the Elder) , is said to have come from Kyme in Aeolia , is only mentioned in the Central Byzantine lexicon Suda . According to the information provided there, he wrote a history of Emperor Gallienus in 27 books. In addition, a treatise on events in Corinth , a work on the Aleuads and other unnamed writings are ascribed to him in the Suda . Nothing of these works has survived.
Some researchers believe that the entry in the Suda is incorrect. Accordingly, several works were wrongly ascribed to Ephorus. It is also controversial whether a historian by the name of Ephorus lived in the time of Gallienus and wrote such an extensive work on the emperor. It is quite possible that Ephorus wrote a comprehensive historical work about this time and did not limit himself to a biography of Gallienus; but the historian could also be a phantom author.
Should the historian Ephorus the Younger be historical, however, then he belonged to a number of Greek-speaking historians who were active in the 3rd century, for example Cassius Dio , Herodian , Nicostratos of Trebizond , Dexippus and an otherwise little-known Eusebius . The activity of Ephoros in this case is further evidence of the vitality of the Greek-language historiography of the time, of which relatively little is known today due to the poor tradition.
Edition with translation
- Bruno Bleckmann , Jonathan Gross: Historians of the Imperial Crisis of the 3rd Century I ( Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity ). Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78490-2 , pp. 99-105.
literature
- Pawel Janiszewski: The Missing Link. Greek Pagan Historiography in the Second Half of the Third Century and in the Fourth Century AD. Warszawa 2006, pp. 329-331.
- Arnold Hugh Martin Jones et al .: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Volume 1. Cambridge 1971, p. 279.
Remarks
- ↑ The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 212.
- ↑ Suda, Epsilon 3952 .
- ^ Pawel Janiszewski: The Missing Link. Greek Pagan Historiography in the Second Half of the Third Century and in the Fourth Century AD. Warszawa 2006, pp. 330f.
- ↑ Hartwin Brandt : Dexipp and the historiography of the 3rd century AD . In: Martin Zimmermann (eds.): History and political change in the 3rd century AD.. . Stuttgart 1999, p. 179.
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SURNAME | Ephorus the Younger |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ephorus of Kyme |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century or 3rd century |
PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Kyme |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century |