Capitol of Lycia

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Kapiton von Lycia was a Greek historian of late antiquity , of whose work only a few fragments have survived. According to the Byzantine lexicon Suda , he wrote three works:

  1. Isauriká ( ancient Greek Ἰσαυρικά ), a work on the Isauria region , in eight books
  2. Translation of the breviary of Eutropius , who summarized the Roman Livy in Latin ( μετάφρασις τῆς ἐπιτομῆς Εὐτροπίου Ῥωμαϊστὶ ἐπιτεμόντος Λίβιον τὸν Ῥωμαῖον )
  3. About Lycia and Pamphylia ( Περὶ Λυκίας καὶ Παμφυλίας )

The year of publication of Eutropius' Breviarium ab urbe condita (369/370 AD) provides the terminus post quem for Kapiton's creative period . A more precise determination is made possible by eleven quotations from the Isauriká in the Lexicon of Stephanos of Byzantium , who was active in the 2nd quarter of the 6th century. In the article Psimada , Stephanos brings a verbatim quote from the Isauriká : "When Konon von Psimada was there, he received him very kindly." According to a generally accepted assumption of Karl Müller , Konon is a leader of the Isaurians in the revolt against Emperor Anastasios I. ( ruled 491-518 AD). Kapiton is likely to have written his work towards the end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century.

The translation of Eutropius' Breviarium attested to in the Suda is not directly preserved. Henricus Valesius put forward the thesis in 1636 that the literal translations of Eutropius, which can be found in numerous sources, come from this translation, since they do not correspond to a directly transmitted translation by Paianios . Capiton's translation of the Chronicle of John of Antioch was then used in later works such as the Suda and the Constantinian excerpts collections. Hans Droysen edited the corresponding fragments in his Eutropius edition for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (1879).

Karl Müller and Eduard Schwartz already cast doubt on Valesius' thesis. The Johannes specialists Umberto Roberto and Sergei Mariev have recently expressed their skepticism. Roberto argued that John had translated the breviary himself from Latin. Mariev left open whether the traces of Eutropius in Johannes were due to Kapiton. Alan Cameron, on the other hand, argued that Kapiton was the author of a third Eutropius translation, different from Paianios and Johannes, which Theophanes used in his World Chronicle for the reign of Emperor Diocletian .

No quotations have survived from the work On Lycia and Pamphylia . Simone Podestà presented two alternative interpretations: Either it was a geographical or historical monograph (since the province of Lycia et Pamphylia was dissolved in the early 4th century, i.e. after 312 AD, it would have to be an antiquarian script or the text in the Suda is corrupt and it should read “about Lycia (see) also Pamphila” (a reference to the history of Pamphila ).

Fragment collections

literature

  • John Robert Martindale: Capito 6. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 259-260 (with references).
  • Simone Podestà: Capitone di Licia. Considerazioni sulla voce Κ 342 Adler del lessico Suda. In: Revue des études tardo-antiques. Volume 6, 2016, pp. 71–81 ( PDF ).
  • Umberto Roberto: Il Breviarium di Eutropio nella cultura greca tardoantica e bizantina: la versione attribuita a Capitone Licio. In: Medioevo Greco. Volume 3, 2003, pp. 241-270.
  • Eduard Schwartz: Capito 10 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 1527.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suda , keyword Καπίτων , Adler number: kappa 342 , Suda-Online .
  2. ↑ Stephanos von Byzanz, Ethnika , edited by Margarethe Billerbeck and Arlette Neumann-Hartmann, Volume 5, Berlin / Boston 2017, Article Ψ 10 = FGrHist 750 F 11.
  3. ^ Umberto Roberto: Il Breviarium di Eutropio nella cultura greca tardoantica e bizantina: la versione attribuita a Capitone Licio. In: Medioevo Greco. Volume 3, 2003, pp. 241-270.
  4. ↑ Sergei Mariev: Ioannis Antiocheni fragmenta quae supersunt omnia. New York 2008, pp. 33 * -34 *.
  5. ^ Alan Cameron: The Last Pagans of Rome . Oxford 2011, pp. 666-668.
personal data
SURNAME Capitol of Lycia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Capito Lycius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek historian of late antiquity
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century
DATE OF DEATH 5th century or 6th century