Epitome of the Philippic history of Pompeius Trogus
著者
書誌事項
Epitome of the Philippic history of Pompeius Trogus
（Clarendon ancient history series）
Clarendon Press, 1997-
- v. 1 : hbk
- v. 1 : pbk
- v. 2 : pbk
- v. 2 : hbk.
- タイトル別名
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Historiae Philippicae
大学図書館所蔵 全12件
注記
Vol. 2 published by Oxford University Press, commentary by Pat Wheatley and Waldemar Heckel
Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- v. 1. Books 11-12, Alexander the Great
- v. 2. Books 13-15, The successors to Alexander the Great
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul living in the age of Augustus, wrote a forty four-book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman, Mediterranean world. This work was later abbreviated by a certain M. Junianus Justinus, better know as Justin. This volume presents the first modern English translation and scholarly commentary on Books 11-12 of Justin's so-called "Epitome" of the history.
These books constitute one of the five major sources for the history of Alexander the Great and belong to the so-called "Vulgate" tradition, which in the opinion of many scholars derives ultimately from the lost historian Clearchus of Alexandria. The original work of Pompeius Trogus appears to have had stylistic and historical influences on the better know History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus.
In this volume the authors tease out and differentiate as far as possible the relative contributions of the historian Trogus and the "epitomator", Justin. The commentary examines the relationship of Justin-Trogus to both the extant sources and the works of the lost Alexander historians, and a serous attempt is made to explain errors or deviations from well-known sources in terms of the methods of historian and "epitomator" before resorting to the expedient of textual emendation. A second
volume, covering books 13-15, is forthcoming.
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