The Chronicle of Hydatius and The Consularia Constantinopolitana
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The Chronicle of Hydatius and The Consularia Constantinopolitana
（Oxford classical monographs）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Chronicon
Chronicle of Hydatius
Consularia Constantinopolitana
The Chronicle of Hydatius and The Consularia Constantinopolitana : two contemporary accounts of the final years of the Roman Empire
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"Two contemporary accounts of the final years of the Roman Empire."
The anonymous "consularia" have been thought (incorrectly) to be partly the work of Idatius
Bibliography: p. [247]-251
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book contains new critical editions of two early and important examples of the most popular Late Roman historical genres and the first ever English translation of Hydatius. The first, the Chronicle of Hydatius, is an account of the beginning of the collapse of the Roman Empire and the end of the world under the twin pressures of barbarian invasion and heresy between AD 378 and 468/9, written by a Spanish bishop who lived in the first independent
barbarian state established within the Empire. The second, the Consularia Constantinopolitana, is a complex document of differing dates and hands which was continued down to AD 468 with the addition of many detailed historical entries.
They provide an indispensable contemporary account of the fourth century AD. These editions, based on the first ever examination of all surviving manuscripts, are provided with detailed introductions and appendices.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Hydatii limmici chronica subdita: Hydatius and his "Chronicle"
- manuscripts and editions
- chronology
- Lacunae, fragments, and interpolations
- presentation of the text
- previous editions of MS B
- sigla
- text and translation. Part 2 The "Consularia Constantinopolitana": prolegomena
- analysis of the pre-389 material
- Hydatius and the "Consularia"
- analysis of the post-388 material
- presentation of the text
- previous editions of the "Consularia"
- sigla
- text.
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