Byzantine Historiography
Some cultures have history as distinct field of interest, some don't.
Among those that do not we may list the ancient Egyptians, where apparently
the lone Egyptian historian, Manetho, wrote for Greeks, and Indian culture,
where the history of the subcontinent has to be gleaned largely from Greek,
Persian, and Chinese sources. Among those cultures that do value history,
a number stand out: the Jewish tradition in particular has affected all
later Jewish, Christian and Muslim civilization and world views. In terms
of continuity the two longest such historiographical traditions seem to
have been that of the Chinese and the Greeks. The Greek tradition, beginning
with Herodotos, Thukydides continued throughout Antiquity. Less well known
is that it continued in Byzantium, the subject here, and is one of the
reasons for interest in and ability to research, Byzantine history despite
the loss much material available to historians of other medieval societies.
For much of Byzantine history a series of historical accounts, often
covering about fifty years each, continued, one after another, each giving
a detailed account of the history of the empire from the perspective of
the governmental and ecclesiastical elites. There was an element of self-consciousness
about this tradition, even though, unlike in China, it was not a government
project - thus Michael Psellos acknowledges Leo the Deacon, and Anna Komnena
picks up the torch from Psellos. As noted by Harry Turtledove in his translation
of Theophanes Chronographia, these historical accounts self-consciously
looked back to Thukydides and were written in a classicizing and sometimes
clumsy Greek. Alongside such historical works were also a series
of more popularly written chronicles, often arranged year by year
and written in a less formal style. These chronicles often begin with creation
and lifted content for most of their text from earlier chroniclers, or
sometimes historians. The historiographic and chronographic traditions
are parallel, with distinct audiences. Occasionally, as with Theophanes,
the historiographical tradition faltered or has been lost and the chronographers
are our main sources.
As can be seen below virtually the entire corpus has been edited and
in many cases re-edited. Translations of all but a few texts are now available
in English, French, German or Italian.
Here are four tables, arranged by lifetime of author, of the historiographical
and chronographical traditions of Byzantine culture.
CAVEAT: These tables, especially the last two, are not complete,
nor definitive. Suggestions, etc. are welcome.
Table I: Byzantine
Historians
Note: for reference to "FE" see "Farrar and Evans" in the short
bibliography that follows.
|
Historian
|
Work
|
Period Covered
|
| Eusebios of Caesarea
260-340
4C |
Ekklesiastike historia / Ecclesiastical History
ed I.A. Heikel, (Leipzig: 1902)
ed. and English translation, Kirsopp Lake and J.E.I Oulton, Loeb Classical
Library, 2 Vols, (London and New York: 19 )
English trans. An ecclesiastical history to the twentieth year of
the reign of Constantine : being the 324th of the Christian era, trans.
by C.F. Cruse. 4th ed., carefully rev., to which is prefixed The life
of Eusebius by Valesius, trans by S. E. Parker, (London : S. Bagster,
1847)
English trans. as The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine,
by G.A. Williamson, (New York: Penguin, 1965)
ed. and French trans. Histoire ecclesiastique / Eusebe de Cesaree
; texte grec, traduction et notes, by Gustave Bardy. rev. ed. (Paris
: Cerf, 1984-) Series title: Sources chretiennes ; no 55 |
church history to 324 |
| Eunapios of Sardis (346-414)
5C |
[fragments] in C. Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum
Greacorum IV, pp. 7-56; also cf. Excerpt de legationibus, ed.
C. de Boor, (1903), 591-92
ed. R.C.Blockley, The fragmentary classicising historians of the
later Roman Empire : Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus, and Malchus,
(Liverpool, Great Britain : F. Cairns, c1981-1983), 2 Vols..
ed. and English trans., W.C. Wright, Philostratus and Eunapius: The
Lives of the Sophists, Loeb Classical Library (London: 1922) |
270-404 |
| Olympidoros of Thebes
5C |
[fragments] in C. Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum
Greacorum IV, pp. 57-68
ed. R.C.Blockley, The fragmentary classicising historians of the
later Roman Empire : Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus, and Malchus,
(Liverpool, Great Britain : F. Cairns, c1981-1983), 2 Vols..
and for excerpts see C.D. Gordon, The Age of Attila: Fifth Century
Byzantium and the Barbarians, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1960) [Passages from Priskos, Malchos, Olympidoros and John of Antioch
shaped into one narrative] |
407-27 |
| Zosimos
5C |
Historia Nea /New History
ed. L. Mendelssohn, (Leipzig: 1887)
critical ed. and French trans., Francois Paschoud, Histoire
nouvelle [par] Zosime. Texte etabli et traduit, (Paris, Les Belles
Lettres, 1971-1989), 3 vols.
English trans as The History of Count Zosimus, Sometime Advocate
and Chancellor of the Roman Empire, trans from Original Greek, (London:
Printed for J. Davis, 1814)
English trans. J. J. Buchanan and H. T. Davies (San Antonio TX: 1967).
Superseded by
English translation by Ronald D. Ridley,, Byzantina Australiensa
2, (Canberra: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies,1982)
German trans. Neue Geschichte / Zosimos ; ubersetzt und eingeleitet von Otto Veh ; durchgesehen und erlautert by Stefan Rebenich, (Stuttgart
: A. Hiersemann, 1990), Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur Bd. 31.
FE 3838 |
Augustus-410, full from Diocletian |
| Sokrates Scholastikos
c.379-440
5C |
Ekklesiastike historia /Ecclesiastical History
ed. Migne PG 67:28-842
The ecclesiastical history of Socrates, surnamed Scholasticus, or
the Advocate : comprising a history of the church in seven books, from
the accession of Constantine, A.D. 305, to the 38th year of Theodosius...,
(London : Henry G. Bohn, 1853) reprinted several times |
306-439 |
| Sozomenos
c.400-450
5C |
Ekklesiastike historia / Ecclesiastical History
ed. Migne PG 67:843-1630
ed. and French tr. Histoire ecclesiastique, Greek text of the
edition by J. Bidez ; introduction by Bernard Grillet and Guy Sabbah ;
translation by Andre-Jean Festugiere ; annotation by Guy Sabbah, (Paris
: Editions du Cerf, 1983-) Sources chretiennes ; no 306-
A history of the church in nine books, from A.D. 324 to A.D. 440,
tran. Edward Walford, (London : Bagster, 1846) |
324-440 |
| Theodoret of Cyprus
d.c. 547
6C |
Ekklesiastike historia / Ecclesiastical History
ed. L. Parmentier, (Leipzig: 1911)
English trans. by B. Jackson as "The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues
and Letters of Theodoret", in Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, 2nd
series, III, (New York: 1893)
English trans as A History of The Church, in Five Books from AD 322
to the Death of Theodore of Mopsuestia, AD 427, a new translation from
the Original Greek Ecclesiastical Historians 5, (London: S. Bagster and
Sons, 1843)
FE 3607-08 |
325-428 |
| Priskos
5C |
[fragments] in C. Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum
Greacorum IV, pp. 69-100
ed. R.C.Blockley, The fragmentary classicising historians of the
later Roman Empire : Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus, and Malchus,
(Liverpool, Great Britain : F. Cairns, c1981-1983), 2 Vols..
and for excerpts see C.D. Gordon, The Age of Attila: Fifth Century
Byzantium and the Barbarians, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1960) [Passages from Priskos, Malchos, Olympidoros and John of Antioch
shaped into one narrative] |
433-468 |
| Prokopios
d.565
6C |
works include
The Wars [written 551, addition to 553]
The Buildings [written 554]
The Secret History [written ?]
edition, Opera Omnia 3 vols., ed. J. Haury, (Leipzig: 1905-13;
rev. G. Wirth, 4 vols. Leipzig: Teubner series, 1962-64)
English translation, Works 7 vols., ed. and trans. H.B. Dewing,
(New York and London: Loeb Classical Library, 1914-35)
English translation, History of the Wars, Secret History and Building,
trans., ed. and abridged Averil Cameron, Great Histories Series, (New York:
1967)
English translation, The Secret History, trans. G.A. Williamson,
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966, 1981)
The Secret History, trans. R. Atwater, (New York: 1927; repr.
With intro by A.E.R. Boark, Ann Arbor, Mi.: 1961) |
Justinian's reign to 552 |
| Agathias of Myrina
c.532-c580
6C |
Historiarum Libri Quinque
[intended to follow Prokopios]
ed. R. Keysdell, Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 2A (Berlin: De
Gruyter, 1967)
partial English trans, Averil Cameron, "Agathias on the Sassanians",
Dumbarton Oaks Papers 23-24 (1969-70), 67-183
trans as The Histories, Joseph D. Frendo, Corpus Fontium Historiae
Byzantinae 2A (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1975) |
552-559 |
| Evagrius
c. 536- c.595
6C |
Ecclesiastical History
ed J. Bidez and L. Parmentier, (London: 1898, reprinted Amsterdam: 1964)
French trans: A-J. Festugière, in Byzantion 45:2 (1975)
English trans: A history of the church in six books, from A.D.431
to A.D.594. A new translation from the Greek: with an account of the author
and his writings, trans. Edward Wlaford, (London, S. Bagster and sons,
1846, reissued London: H.G. Bohn, 1854) |
431-594 |
| John of Epiphaneia
6-7C
[a cousin of Evagrios] |
[fragments] in C. Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum
Greacorum IV, pp. 272-76 |
572- |
| Theophanes of Byzantium |
[fragments]
in C. Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Greacorum IV, pp. 270-71
and in Photios, Bibliotheca, ed. R. Henry, Vol 2, (Paris: 1959),
pp. 76-79 |
|
| Menander Protector [the Guardsman]
6C |
Historia [survives in fragments]
[intended to follow Agathias of Myrina]
ed. and English trans. The History of Menander the Guardsman,
trans. R.C. Blockley, (Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1985) |
557/8-582 |
| Theophylakt of Simokatta
b.c. 580s - d. p. 641?
7C |
History
[intended to follow Menander]
ed. C. de Boor, corr. P. Wirth, (Stuttgart: 1972)
English trans. as The History of Theophylact of Simocatta: An English
Translation with Introduction and Notes, trans. Michael Whitby and
Mary Whitby, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
German trans. Geschichte / Theophylaktos Simokates ; ubersetzt und
erlautert, by Peter Schreiner, (Stuttgart : A. Hiersemann, 1985), Bibliothek
der griechischen Literatur Bd. 20
Rumanian trans. Teofilact simocata istorie bizantina : domnia imparatului
mauricius (582-602), by H. Mihaescu, (Bucharest:: Editura Academiei
Republicii Socialiste, 1985), Scriptores Byzantini ; v. 9. |
582-602 [reign of Maurice] |
| Nikephoros, Pat CP 806-815
9C |
Historia Syntomos
[intended to follow Theophylakt]
ed. C. de Boor, (Leipzig: 1880)
ed. and English trans, as Short history / Nikephoros, Patriarch of
Constantinople ; text, translation, and commentary, Corpus fontium
historiae Byzantinae ; v. 13. by Cyril Mango, (Washington, D.C :
Dumbarton Oaks, 1990) |
602-769 |
| Joseph Genesios
fl. 912-959
10C |
Basileiai / Regum Libri Quattuor [written 945-59]
["Official" account of Michael III and Basil I]
ed. C. Lachmon, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1828)
ed. A. Lesmüller-Werner, and H. Thurn, Corpus Fontium Historiae
Byzantinae, Vol. XIV, Series Berolinensis, (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973)
German trans. Byzanz am Vorabend neuer Grosse : Uberwindung des Bilderstreites
und der innenpolitischen Schwache (813-886) : die vier Bucherder Kaisergeschichte
des Ioseph Genesios ; ubersetzt, eingeleitet und erklart, by Anni Lesmuller-Werner,
(Vienna: Fassbaender, 1989), Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol. 18. |
2nd iconclast period and to 886 |
| Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos, Emperor
905-959.
10C |
Historike diegesis tou viou kai ton praxeon Vasileiou
tou aoidimou Vasileos. Book 5.
German trans as. Vom Bauernhof auf den Kaiserthron : Leben des Kaisers
Basileios I., des Begrunders der Makedonischen Dynastie / beschrieben von
seinem Enkel, dem Kaiser Konstantinos VII. Porphyrogennetos ; ubersetzt,
eingeleitet und erklart, by Leopold Breyer. (Graz: Styria, c1981) Byzantinische
Geschichtsschreiber ; Bd. 14. |
|
| John Kaminatos
10C |
Eis ten alosin tes Thessalonikes / De Expugnatione Thessalonicae
ed., Gertrude Böhlig, Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, Vol.
IV, Series Berolinensis, (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973)
ed. and German tr. as Einnahme Thessalonikes durch die Araber im
Jahre 904: ubers., eingeleitet und erklart, by Gertrud Böhlig.
1. (Graz : Verlag Styria, 1975) |
Arab sack of 904 |
| Anon |
Vita Euthymii patriarchae CP
ed and trans . Patricia Karlin-Hayter, Bibliotheque de Byzantion 3, (Brussels: Éditions de Byzantion, 1970) [Despite its title,
this is an historical account of the reign of Leo VI] |
|
| Leo the Deacon
10C |
Historia
[modeled on Agathias]
ed., C. B. Hase, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1828)
German trans, Nikephoros Phokas "Der bleiche Tod der Sarazenen" und
Johannes Tzimiskes : die Zeit von 959 bis 976 in der Darstellung des Leon
Diakonos, by Franz Loretto, (Graz : Styria, c1961), Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber
Vol 10
Russian trans. Istoriia / Lev Diakon, perevod M.M. Kopylenko
; stat'ia M.IA. Siuziumova ; kommentarii M.IA. Siuziumova, S.A. Ivanova
; otvetstvennyi redaktor G.G. Litavrin, (Moscow: Izd-vo "Nauka", 1988),
Pamiatniki istoricheskoi mysli.
English trans. by Alice Mary Talbot, in typescript |
959-976 |
| Michael Psellos
1018-c.1080s |
Chronographia [only 1 12C ms survived]
[intended to follow Leo the Deacon]
ed. Konstantinos N. Sathas, Bibliotheca greaca medii aevi, vol
4, (Paris: 1874)
The history of Psellus, edited with critical notes and indices
by Constantine Sathas. 1st AMS ed. (New York : AMS Press, 1979), Reprint
of the 1899 ed. of Chronographia, published by Methuen, London
ed. J.B. Bury, (London: 1899)
ed and French trans E. Renauld, 2 vols, (Paris: 1926-18)
English trans. as Fourteen Byzantine Rulers, trans. E.R.A. Sewter,
rev. ed., (New York: Penguin, 1966)
ed. and Italian trans. Imperatori di Bisanzio : (cronografia):
introduzione di Dario Del Corno ; testo critico a cura di Salvatore Impellizzeri
; commento di Ugo Criscuolo; traduzione di Silvia Ronchey. 1a ed., (Milan:
Fondazione L.Valla : A. Mondadori, 1984)
Russian trans. Khronografiia, perevod, stat'ia i primechaniia
IA.N. Liubarskogo, (Moskva : "Nauka", 1978)
.
Historia syntomos, recensuit, Anglice vertit et commentario
instruxit W.J. Aerts. Editio princeps, Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae
; Series Berolinensis, Vol 30., (Berlin; W. de Gruyter, 1990), edition
with English translation |
976-1078 |
| Michael Attaliates
11C |
Historia
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae Byzantinae 34, (Bonn:
1853)
Partial French trans, chaps 1-32, by Henri Gregoire, Byzantion 28 (1958),. 325-362
Partial English trans. {Bonn pp 93-151), by George T. Dennis, typescript
in Dumbarton Oaks Library |
1034-1079 |
| Anna Komnena
1083-c.1150 |
The Alexiad [only 2 mss survived]
[intended to follow Michael Psellos]
ed. and French trans., B. Lieb, 3 vols., (Paris: 1937-45: rep. 1967)
English trans. E.A. Dawes, (London: 1928)
English trans. E.R.A. Sewter, (New York: Penguin, 1969)
Partial Italian trans. La precrociata di Roberto il Guiscardo; pagine
dall'Alessiade,, by Salvatore Impellizzeri. (Bari: Dedalo, 1965)
see also:
Anonyme Metaphrase zu Anna Komnene, Alexias XI-XIII : ein Beitrag
zur Erschliessung der byzantinischen Umgangssprache, by Herbert Hunger,
(Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenchaften, 1981)
Wiener byzantinistische Studien ; Bd. 15. |
1069-1118 |
| Nicephoras Bryennios
11-12C
[husband of Anna Komnena] |
Materials for a History,
ed. as Comentarii, Augustus Meinecke, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae
Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1836)
ed. as Histoire with French trans. by Paul Gautier, Corpus Fontium
Historiae Byzantinae, Vol. IX, (Brussels: 1975
French trans. by Henri Gregoire, Byzantion 23 (1953), 469-530,
and Byzantion 25-27 (1955-57), 881-925 |
1057-1080 |
| John Kinnamos
b. after 1143 - d. after 1185, wrote c.1180-1182. |
Epitome [Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus] [1 13C
ms survives.]
[intended to follow Anna Komnena]
ed. as Historia, Augustus Meinecke, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae
Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1836)
English trans. Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, Charles. M.
Brand, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976) |
1118-1176 |
| Eustathios of Thessalonica, dc. 1194
12C |
The Capture of Thessalonica
ed as La espugnazione di Tessalonica, by S. Kyriakades, with
an Italian translation by V. Rotolo, (Palermo: 1961)
English trans by John Melville-Jones, Byzantina Australiensia 8, (Canberra:
Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1988)
German translation Die Normannen in Thessalonike; die Eroberung von
Thessalonike durch die Normannen, 1185 n. Chr., in der Augenzeugenschilderung
des Bischofs Eustathios. Ubers., eingeleitet und erklart, by Herbert
Hunger, (Graz, Verlag Styria, 1955) Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol
3 |
1185 |
| Niketas Choniates
b. c. 1155-1215/16 |
Annals,
ed. as Historia, Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae
Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1835)
ed. Jan-Louis Van Dieten, (Nicetae Choniatae), Corpus Fontium Historiae
Byzantinae, Series Berolinensis, Vols. XI/1 and XI/2, (Berlin: De Gruyter,
1975).
English translation, O City of Byzantium, Annals of Niketas Choniates,
trans. Harry J. Magoulias, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984)
German trans. as
-----Die Krone der Komnenen : die Regierungszeit der Kaiser Joannes
und Manuel Komnenos (1118-1180) / aus dem Geschichtswerk des Niketas Choniates.
Ubers., eingeleitet und erklart, by Franz Grabler. (Graz : Styria,
1958) Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol 7.
-----Abenteurer auf dem Kaiserthron : die Regierungszeit der Kaiser
Alexios II., Andronikos und Isaak Angelos (1180-1195) aus dem Geschichtswerk
des Niketas Choniates / ubers., eingeleitet und erklart, by Franz Grabler.
(Graz : Verlag Styria, 1958) Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol 8
-----Die Kreuzfahrer erobern Konstantinopel; die Regierungszeit der
Kaiser Alexios Angelos, Isaak Angelos und Alexios Dukas, die Schicksale
der Stadt nach der Einnahme sowie das "Buch von den Bildsaulen" (1195-1206)
aus.., , by Franz Grabler. (Graz : Verlag Styria, 1958) Byzantinische
Geschichtsschreiber Vol 9 |
1118-1207 |
| George Akropolites
1217-1282 |
Chonike Sungraphe
critical ed. as Opera, by A. Heisenberg, (Leipzig: 1903)
German trans. Die Chronik / Georgios Akropolites ; ubersetzt und
erlautert, von Wilhelm Blum, (Stuttgart : A. Hiersemann, 1989), Bibliothek
der griechischen Literatur ; Bd. 28.
English trans by R.M. Magdalino in typescript [where?] |
1203-1261 |
| George Pachymeres
1242- c. 1310
14C |
De Michaele et Andronico Paleologus
[continues Akropolites]
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn:
1835)
ed. as Relationes historicas, Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae,
Series Berolinensis, Vol. XXII, ed. Albert Failler with French translation
by Vitalien Laurent, (Paris: Less Belles Lettres, 1984) |
1255-1308 |
| Nikephoras Gregoras
1295-1359
14C |
Romaike Historia [in 37 books]
ed. as Historia Byzantina, Ludwig Schopen and Immanuel Bekker,
Corpus Scriptorium Historiae Byzantinae, 3 vols. (Bonn: Weber, 1829-30)
German trans. Rhomaische Geschichte = Historia Rhomaike [von] Nikephoros
Gregoras. Ubers. und erlautert, by Jan Louis van Dieten, (Stuttgart,
A. Hiersemann, 1973-<1994 >), Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur.
Abteilung Byzantinistik Bd. 15, 24, 39.
English trans of Plague description in Bartsocas, C.S., "Two 14th Century
Greek Descriptions of the `Black Death'", Journal of the History of
Medicine 21:4 (1966), pp. 395ff. |
1204-1359 |
| John Kantakuzenos
1292-1383
14C |
Historiarum
ed. Ludwig Schopen, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae Byzantinae, 3.vols.
(Bonn: Weber, 1828-32)
ed. Opera / Johannis Cantacuzeni ; nunc primum editae curantibus,
Edmond Voordeckers and Franz Tinnefeld. (Turnhout : Brepols ; Leuven :
University Press, 1987-): Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca ; 16
English partial trans. by R. Trone History I: 1-19 (Ph.D Dissertation,
Catholic University of America, 1979) [==Bonn I, 1-98]
English partial trans. by Timothy S. Miller as The History of John
Cantacuzenus, Book IV, Text, Translation and Commentary (Ph.D Dissertation,
Catholic University of America, 1975; Ann Arbor, Mi.: University Microfilms,
75-19,517) [==Bonn III, 8-107]
English trans of Plague description in Bartsocas, C.S., "Two 14th Century
Greek Descriptions of the `Black Death'", Journal of the History of Medicine
21:4 (1966), pp. 395ff
German trans. Geschichte, Johannes Kantakuzenos ubersetzt und erlautert,
by Georgios Fatouros und Tilman Krischer., (Stuttgart : Hiersemann, 1982-<1986
>), Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur ; Bd. 17, etc. |
1320-1357 |
| Symeon, Abp. of Thessalonike
15C. |
Politico-historical works of Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica,
(1416/17 to 1429), critical Greek text with introd. and commentary
/ by David Balfour, (Vienna:: Verl. d. Osterr. Akad. d. Wiss., 1979), Wiener
byzantinistische Studien ; Bd. 13. |
|
| Leontios Makhairos
15C |
Recital Concerning the Sweet Land of Cyprus
ed. and trans. R. M. Dawkins, 2 vols. (Oxford: 1932) |
esp. 1359-1432 |
| John Kanonas
15C |
Chronikon
ed. with Sphrantzes by Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae
Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1838), pp. 457-78
German trans. Europa im XV. Jahrhundert von Byzantinern gesehen,
(Graz: Styria 1954) Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol 2.
Contents: - Die Nordlandreise des Laskaris Kananos (alles eingeleitet
und erklart von Franz Gabler) |
Murad II's 1422 attack on Constantinople |
| John Anagostes
15C |
ed. with Sphrantzes by Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorium
Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1838), pp. 457-78 |
Capture of Thessalonica 1430 |
| Laonikos Chalkokondyles
15C |
Historiarum demonstrationes [written in 1480s]
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn:
1843)
ed. E. Darkó, 2 vols., (Budapest: 1922-27)
German trans. in Europa im XV. Jahrhundert von Byzantinern gesehen,
(Graz: Styria 1954) Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol 2.
Contents: Aus dem Geschichtswerk des Laonikos Chaikokondyles -- Die
Nordlandreise des Laskaris Kananos -- Zwei Briefe des Manuel Chrysoloras,
je ubers. (alles eingeleitet und erklart von Franz Gabler) |
Adam to Ottom beginnings in 1299, then 1298-1463
in detail |
| Doukas
15C |
Historia Turco-Byzantina [written in vernacular]
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn:
1834)
critical ed. Vasile Grecu, (Bucharest: 1958)
English trans. as Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks,
by Harry J. Magoulias, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975) |
1341-1462 |
| George Sphrantzes,
b. 1401
15C |
Chronicon Maius [attrib to Sphrantzes]
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn:
1838)
Partial German trans as, Die letzten Tage von Konstantinopel : der
auf den Fall Konstantinopels 1453 bezugliche Teil des dem Georgios Sphrantzes
zugeschriebenen "Chronicon Maius", ubers., eingeleitet und erklart,
by Endre von Ivanka, (Graz : Verlag Styria, 1954, repr. 1965), Byzantinische
Geschichtsschreiber Vol 1. [Translation of part of the Melissenos version
of the Chronikon.]
Chronicon Minus
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptorium Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn:
1838)
ed. J-P Migne, Patrologia greaca 156: 1025-80 (Bonn: 1834)
critical ed. J. B. Papadopoulos, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1935)
ed. and Italian trans. Cronaca, ed. Giorgio Sfranze ; a cura
di Riccardo Maisano. Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae. Series Italica.,
Vol 29 (Roma : Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1990)
English trans. as The Fall of the Byzantine Empire, by Marios
Philippides, (Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980) [This
edition includes a short except on the fall of Constantinople by Michael
Melissenos. ] |
1413-1477 |
| Michael Kritovoulos (Critoboulus)
15C |
Vios tou Moameth II / De rebus gestibus Mahumetis II
ed. C. Müller in Fragmentum historicum greacorum, (Paris:
1883), V:52-164
critical ed. V. Grecu, (Bucharet: 1963)
ed. Critobuli Imbriotae historiaem by Diether Roderich Reinsch,
Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae ; v. 22. (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1983)
English trans as History of Mehmed the Conqueror, trans. Charles
T. Rigg, (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1954)
German trans. Mehmet II. Erobert Konstantinopel : die ersten Regierungsjahre
des Sultans Mehmet Fatih, des Eroberers von Konstantinopel 1453 : das Geschichtswerk
des Kritobulos von Imbros; ubersetzt, eingeleitet und erklart, by Diether
Roderich, (Graz : Styria, c1986), Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber ; Bd.
17. |
1451-1467 |
| Sylvester Syropoulos
15C |
Les "Memoires" du Grand Ecclesiarche de l'Eglise de
Constantinople Sylvestre Syropoulos sur le concile de Florence (1438-39),
ed. & trans. V. Laurent, Concilium Florentium: Documenta et Scriptores,
Series B, 9, (Rome: 1971) |
1438-39 |
| Anon
16C |
Ekthesis chronike synometera syntethesia en haploteti
lexeon
ed. Konstantinos N. Sathas, Bibliotheca greaca medii aevi, vol
7, (Paris: 1894)
Text and English trans. as Emperors, Patriarchs and Sultans of Constantinople,
by Marios Philippides, (Brookline MA: Hellenic College Press, 1990) |
1391-1543 |
| Anon
17C |
Chronikon peri ton Tourkon soultanon.
English trans. Byzantium, Europe, and the early Ottoman sultans,
1373-1513 : an anonymous Greek chronicle of the seventeenth century (Codex
Barberinus Graecus 111), translated and annotated by Marios Philippides,
(New Rochelle, N.Y. : A.D. Caratzas, c1990), Late Byzantine & Ottoman
studies 4. |
1373-1513 |
TABLE II: Byzantine
Chroniclers
|
Author
|
Work
|
Period Covered
|
| Eusebius of Caesarea
written late 3C |
Chronicle
[First full scale Christian chronicle] |
Adam - late 3rc century. |
| John Malalas [aka John the Rhetor, or
John of Antioch?]
b.c. 490- d.c. 570 |
Chronographia
ed, L. Dindorf, Corpus Scriptores Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1831)
ed. John Thurn, Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, Vol. ?, Series
Berolinensis, (Berlin: De Gruyter, ?) announced
English trans. The Chronicle of John Malalas, trans. Elizabeth
Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Roger Scott, et al, Byzantine Australiensia
4, (Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1986)
English trans from Church Slavonic version, Chronicle of John Malalas:
Books 8-18, trans., M. Spinka in collaboration with Glanville Downey,
(ChicagoL University of Chicago Press, 1940)
and for excerpts see C.D. Gordon, The Age of Attila: Fifth Century
Byzantium and the Barbarians, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1960) [Passages from Priskos, Malchos, Olympidoros and John of Antioch
shaped into one narrative] |
Adam - 563 |
| Anon
7C |
Chronicon Paschale
[intended to extend Malalas]
ed. L. Dindorf, Corpus Scriptores Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1832)
Partial English trans. Chronicon Paschale 284-628 AD / translated
with notes and introduction by Michael Whitby and Mary Whitby, (Liverpool
: Liverpool University Press, c 1989), Translated texts for historians
7. |
Adam - 628 |
| John of Nikiou
7C |
Chronicle
[orginally written in Greek, survives in a mutilated Ethiopic translation
of an Arab translation]
English trans. by R.H. Charles, The Chronicle of John, Bishop of
Nikiou, Text and Translation Society, (London and Oxford: Williams
and Norgate, 1916) |
Adam - Arab Conquest of Egypt |
| George the Synkellos
d.810/811 |
edition? |
|
Theophanes the Confessor
c752-c818
9C |
Chronographia
[intended to continue George the Synkellos]
ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols., Corpus Scriptores Historiae Byzantinae, (Leipzig:
1883-85; repr. Hildesheim: 1963)
English trans., The Chronicle of Theophanes : An English Translation
of anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813), trans Harry Turtledove, (Philadelphia
: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982).
German trans of 717-813 AD as Bilderstreit und Arabersturm in Byzanz
: das 8. Jahrhundert (717-813) aus der Weltchronik des Theophanes / ubers.,
eingeleitet und erklart, by Leopold Breyer, (Graz: Verlag Styria, 1964,
c1957.), Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol 6.
English trans R. Scott and Cyril Mango, in typescript? - Signalled in
Albu, "Annotated Guide".
English trans of "Conversation Between Justinian and the Green Party
in the Hippodorme" in J.B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire from
the Death of Theodosius I, to the Death of Justinian (AD 395 to AD 565),
(London: Macmillan, 1923), II, 71-74
Also trans in Alan Cameron, Circus Factions: Blues and Greens at
Rome and Byzantium, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), 318-333 |
284-813, essential for 602-813 |
| (Pseudo-) Symeon magister
date? |
Annales
ed. I. Bekker, Corpus Scriptores Historiae Byzantinae, (Berlin:
1838) |
|
| Theophanes Continuatus
10C |
Chronographia
[Book 5 written by Constantine VII Porphygenitos]
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptores Historiae Byzantinae, (Berlin:
1838) |
813-963 |
| Nikephoros, Pat CP 806-815
9C |
Chronographia
ed.? |
Adam - 829 |
| George Monachos
9C |
Chronicle [written 842-67]
ed. C. de Boor, (Leipzig: 1905) |
Adam to 842 |
| Symeon the Logothete
10C |
Chronicle survives in several versions known as:
The Chronicle of Theodosios Melitenos [ed. T. Tafel, (Munich: 1859)]; George
Monachos Continuatos; and the Chronicle of Leo Grammatikos, [ed., Immanuel
Bekker, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, (Bonn: 1842); also
Migne PG: 108:1037-1164]
English trans from Old Church Slavic text, Walter K. Hanak, The Chronicle
of Symeon Logothetes, publication planned [Signalled by Albu, "Annotated
Sources"] |
Adam to 948 [some versions go to 11C] |
| John Skylitzes
fl. 1081
11C |
Synopsis Historiarum
ed. Hans Thurn, Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, Vol. V, Series
Berolinensis, (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1978)
German trans. as Byzanz, wieder ein Weltreich : das Zeitalter der
makedonischen Dynastie / nach dem Geschichtswerk des Johannes Skylitzes;
ubersetzt, eingeleitet und erklart, by Hans Thurn. (Graz: Verlag Styria,
c1983-), Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol 15. |
811 -1057 |
| Skylitzes Continuatos |
Ioannis Scylizes Continuatus
ed. E.T. Tsolakes, (Thessalonica: 1968) |
1057-1079 |
| George Kedrenos
11C |
Historiarum Compendium
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptores Historiae Byzantinae 35-36, 2
vols, (Berlin: 1838-39) |
-1057 |
| John Zonaras
12C |
Epitome historiarum
ed. M. Pindar and M. Büttner-Wobst, 3 vols, Corpus Scriptores Historiae
Byzantinae, (Berlin: 1841-97)
ed. L. Dindorf, 6 vols., (Leipzig, 1868-75)
Partial English trans, by Michael DiMaio, Jr. Zonaras' Account of the
Neo-Flavian Emperors: A Commentary, (Ph.D diss., University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1977; Diss Abs Accession No: AAG7814112) [DiMaio
has more in typescript]
Partial German trans. Militars und Hoflinge im Ringen um das Kaisertum
: Byzantinische Geschichte 969 bis 1118 Nach der Chronik des Johannes Zonaras
; ubersetzt, eingeleitet und erklart, by Erich Trapp. (Graz : Verlag
Styria, c1986), Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber Vol 16. |
Adam - 1118 |
| Constantine Manassas
12C |
Chronicle
ed. as Breviarum historiae metricum, ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus
Scriptores Historiae Byzantinae, (Berlin: 1837) |
Adam - 1081 |
| Michael Glykas
12C |
Annals
ed. Immanuel Bekker, Corpus Scriptores Historiae Byzantinae, (Berlin:
1836) |
Adam - 1118 |
| Joel
13C |
Chronicle
edition? |
Adam - 1204 |
| Theodore Skutariotes
13C |
Chronicle
[often known as Synopis Sathas]
ed. Konstantinos N. Sathas, Bibliotheca greaca medii aevi, vol
7, (Paris: 1894), 1-556 |
Adam - 1261 |
| Anon
13C |
Chronicle of Morea [exists in various languages]
Greek version, ed., J.Schmitt, as The Chronicle of the Morea,
(London: 1904)
English trans. H.E. Lurier, Crusaders as Conquerors: The Chronicle
of Morea, (New York: Columbia UP, 1964) |
First Crusade, then 1202-1292 |
| Michael Panaretos
15C |
Chronicle
critical ed. O. Lampsides, (Athens: 1958) |
3-15 C in Trebizond |
| Anon |
Short Chronicles
ed. as Brachea Chronika, by S.P. Lampros & K, Amantos (Athens:
Akademia Athenon Mnemeia tes Ellenikes Istorias, A, 1932-1933) No. 27 (also
in 1834 Bonn edition of Ducas, op. cit., ed. I Bekker, pp. 515-5270
ed. Peter Schreiner, as, Die byzantinischen Kleinchronikon, I
Introduction and Text, II Historical Commentary, Corpus Fontium
Historiae Byzantinae XII:1 & 2, (Vienna: 1975, 1977) |
|
| Anon
14C |
Charanis, Peter, "An Important Short Chronicle of the Fourteenth
Century", Byzantion 13 (1938), pp. 335-362 |
|
| Anon
14-15C |
Dennis, G.T., trans., "The Short Chronicle of Lesbos 1355-1428", Lesbiaca 5 (1966), pp. 123-144 |
1355-1428 |
| Anon
15C |
Loernertz, R-J, ed. and trans., "La Chronique breve mereote
de 1423", Melanges Eugene Tisserunt II, Studi e Testi 232,
(Vatican: 1964), pp. 399-439, text 403-409
[A collation of Brachea Chronika Nos. 19 & 27 with a previously
unpublished text.] |
1423 |
| Ephraim Ainios
date? |
Ephraem Aenii Historia chronica, ed. Odysseus Lampsides,
Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae ; Series Atheniensis, V. 27, (Athens:
Academiae Atheniensis, 1990) |
|
| Anonymous
date? |
Cronaca dei Tocco di Cefalonia; prolegomeni, testo critico
e traduzione, by Giuseppe Schiro, Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae
; v. 10. (Rome: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1975) |
|
| Anonymous
date? |
Chronikon peri ktiseos Monembasias.
Ed. and Ital. trans. Cronaca di Monemvasia ; introduzione, testo
critico e note, by Ivan Duicev, (Palermo : Istituto siciliano di studi
bizantini e neoellenici, 1976) |
|
TABLE III:
The Greek Tradition
|
Historian
|
Work [Usual English Form]
|
Subject
|
| Homer
8C? |
The Illiad
[Not exactly a history but the an important contributor to the later
Greek historiographical tradition] |
Mythical Trojan war |
| Hekataeos of Miletos
c 500 BCE |
Periegesis or Guide [fragments survive]
Histories or Geneaologies |
guide to a map of the world |
| Herodotos
c.490-c.425 BCE |
The Histories [in 9 books]
ed. W.W. How and J. Wells, (Oxford: 1912)
ed. and English translation, A.D. Godley, Loeb Classical Library, 4
Vols, (London and New York: 19 )
English translation |
Mid-6th Cent - 478 BCE, with many historical
digressions [e.g. Book 2 on history of Egypt] |
| Thukydides
c.460-c.399 BCE |
History of the Peloponnesian War [in 8 books]
ed., (Oxford: 19)
ed. and English translation, 4 Vols., C.F. Smith, Loeb Classical Library,
(London and New York: 19 )
English translation |
479-411 BCE
Wars of Greek City States |
| Theopompos and Kratippos
4C BCE |
continued Thukydides [now lost] |
|
| Xenophon
c428-c.352 BCE |
Anabasis or The Persian Expedition
ed. and English translation, C.L. Brownson, Loeb Classical Library,
(London and New York: 19 )
English trans, Rex Warner, (New York: Penguin, 1949, new ed. 1972)
The Hellenica
[continues Thukydides]
ed. and English translation, C.L. Brownson, Loeb Classical Library,
(London and New York: 19 )
English trans. as A History of My Times, by , (New York: Penguin,
19 ) |
401-399 BCE
Greek mercenaries for Persia
411-362 BCE |
| Ephoros of Cyme
b.c. 405 |
Universal History [in 30 books, all now lost, but
used in books 11-16 of Diodoros Sikulos]] |
1100-341 BCE
history of cities of Greece and Asia Minor |
| Aristotle
384-322 BCE |
The Athenian Constitution [part of a collected study
of the constitutions of 158 Greek cities by A's students. Only this survives,
recovered from an Egyptian papyrus in 1890]
ed. and English translation, H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library, (London
and New York: 19 )
English trans. |
|
| Hieronymous of Cardia
3rd Cent BCE |
History [Lost, but used by Diodoros Sikulos, Arrian,
and Plutarch] |
323-272 (poss 263) BCE
After death of Alexander |
| Manetho of Heiropolis
3rc Cent BCE |
History of Egypt [survives in fragments]
ed. and English translation, W.G. Wadell, Loeb Classical Library, (London
and New York: 19 ) |
Egyptian origins to 323 BCE |
| Polybios
c.200-c.118 BCE |
Universal History [in 40 books, 5 survive complete
plus substantial parts of others.]
ed. and English translation, W.R. Paton, Loeb Classical Library, 6 Vols,
(London and New York: 19 )
Partial English trans, Ian Scott-Kilvert, (New York: Penguin, 1979) |
220-146 BCE, but esp after 200
Rise of Roman Empire |
| Appian
c. 160 CE |
Roman History [24 books, 9 survive]
ed. and English translation, Horace White, Loeb Classical Library, 4
Vols, (London and New York: 19 )
German trans. Romische Geschichte / Appian von Alexandria ; ubersetzt
von Otto Veh ; durchgesehen, eingeleitet und erlautert von Kai Brodersen,
(Stuttgart : A. Hiersemann, 1987-1989), Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur
Bd. 23, 27. |
earliest times to Vespasian, most valuable for
146-70BCE |
| Diodoros Sikulos
1st Cent BCE |
Biblitheke historia or World History [written
bet 60 and 30 BCE] [Survives in part - a complet copy perished during capture
of CP in 1453]
ed.
ed. and English translation, C.H. Oldfather, C.L. Sherman, C.B. Welles,
Russel M. Geer, F.R. Walton, Loeb Classical Library, 12 Vols, (London and
New York: 19 )
German trans. Griechische Weltgeschichte : Buch I-X / Diodoros ;
ubersetzt von Gerhard Wirth (Buch I-III) und Otto Veh (Buch IV-X);
eingeleitet und kommentiert von Thomas Nothers, 2 vols. (Stuttgart : A.
Hiersemann, 1992-1993). Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur Bd. 34-35. |
earliest times to 54BCE |
| Dionysios of Halikarnassos
1st Cent BCE |
Romaike Archiologia or Roman Antiquities [Books 1-9, and parts of 11 and 12 survive. It went up to where Polybios
began]
ed. and English translation, trans Spelman, rev. E. Cary, Loeb Classical
Library, 7 Vols, (London and New York: 19 ) |
Mythical times to 264 BCE , although only survives
to 441 BCE |
| Josephus Flavius
37-d.p.93 CE |
The Jewish War [originally in Aramaic]
Antiquities of the Jews
ed. of Works with English translation, S. St.-J. Thackery, Ralph
Marcus, Allen Wikgren, and L.H. Feldman, Loeb Classical Library, 9 Vols,
(London and New York: 19 )
English trans. The Jewish War, by G.A. Williamson, rev.ed., (New
York: Penguin, 1970) |
c.170BCE-66CE
Adam to 66 CE |
| Plutarch
46-120 CE |
Parallel Lives [23 pairs of lives, and 4 single
lives]
ed.
ed. and English translation, B. Perrin, Loeb Classical Library, 11 Vols,
(London and New York: 19 )
English trans, John Dryden, in multiple editions. |
Figures from Greek and Roman history |
| Arrian
b. 85/80 CE |
Anabasis or Campaigns of Alexander the Great [in 7 books with a 8th descriving India]
ed. and English translation, P. Brunt and E. Iliffe Robson, Loeb Classical
Library, 2 Vols, (London and New York: 19 ) [based on a bad text - see
comments in Penguin edition.]
English trans, Aubrey de Sélincourt, rev. J.R. Hamilton, (New
York: Penguin, 1971)
Events After Alexander [in 10 books, only first 2 years survive.]
Parthian History [in 17 books, fragments survive]
History of Bithynia [fragments survive] |
334-323 BCE
323- BCE
Trajan's campaigns
earliest times to 74 BCE |
| Dio Cassius [or Cassius Dio]
163/164-d.p.229CE |
Roman History
critical ed. U.P. Boissevin, 5 vols, (Berlin: 1895-1931)
ed. and English translation, E. Cary, Loeb Classical Library, 9 Vols,
(London and New York: 1914-1927)
Partial English trans [books 50-56, 32BC-14CE], Ian Scott-Kilvert, (New
York: Penguin, 1987) |
727BCE-3rd Cent CE
Portions 64BCE-46CE survive
Foundation of Rome to 3rd century CE |
| Herodion of Syria
fl. c. 230CE |
History of the Empire From the Time of Marcus [in
8 books]
ed. and English translation, C.R. Whittaker, Loeb Classical Library,
2 Vols, (London and New York: 1914-1927) |
180-238 CE
Death of Marcus Aurelius to accession of Gordian III |
TABLE IV: The
Latin Tradition
|
Historian
|
Work
|
Subject
|
| Fabius Pictor
2nd Cent BCE |
[wrote in Greek, survives in fragments] |
Foundation to 2nd Cent BCE |
| Cato
wrote btw 168 and 149 BCE |
Origines [fragments] |
|
| Cassius Hemina |
Annals |
|
| Calpurnius Piso |
Annals |
|
| Sallust
86-c.35 BCE |
The Jurgathine War
Conspiracy of Catiline
ed. and English translation, J.C. Rolfe, Loeb Classical Library, (London
and New York: 19 )
English trans. (New York: Penguin, 19) |
63 BCE |
| Cicero |
Opera |
|
| Livy
59-BC-17CE |
History of Rome [142 books, of which 35 survive]
ed. and English translation, B.O> Foster, F.G. Moore, Evan T. Sage,
A.C. Schelsinger and R.M. Geer, Loeb Classical Library, 14 Vols, (London
and New York: 19 )
English translation - various long sections in Penguin volumes trans,
Aubrey de Sélincourt |
Foundation of Rome to 9BCE |
| Julius Caesar
c.100-44BCE |
Gallic Wars or The Conquest of Gaul [8 books,
only first 7 by Caesar, 8th by Aulus Hirtius]
ed. and English translation, H.J. Edwards, Loeb Classical Library, (London
and New York: 19 )
English trans. S. A. Hanford, rev. Jame Gardner, (New York: Penguin,
1982)
The Civil War
ed. and English translation, A.G. Peskett, Loeb Classical Library, (London
and New York: 19 )
English trans. (New York: Penguin, 19 ) |
58-52 BCE |
| Quintus Curtius Rufus
1st Cent CE |
History of Alexander the Great [in ten books, first
2 are lost]
English trans, (Baltimore: Penguin, 19 ) |
334-323 BCE |
| Tacitus
c 55-c.117 CE |
Annals
English trans. Michael Grant, (Baltimore: Penguin, 1956)
The Histories
ed. Histories and Annals with English translation, C.H.
Moore and J. Jackson, Loeb Classical Library, 4 Vols, (London and New York:
19 )
The Germania
ed. and English translation, M. Hutton, Loeb Classical Library, (London
and New York: 19 )
English translation |
14-68 CE
68-96 CE |
| Suetonius
c.69-c.140 CE |
Lives, or The Twelve Caesars
ed. and English translation, J.C. Rolfe, Loeb Classical Library, (London
and New York: 19 )
English trans. Robert Graves, (Baltimore: Penguin, 1957) |
100BCE-96 CE
Julius Caesar to Domitian |
| Eutropius
4C. |
Breviarum ab urbe condita.
English trans: The breviarum ab urbe condita of Eutropius : the right
honourable secretary of state for general petitions : dedicated to Lord
Valens, Gothicus Maximus & perpetual emperor, translated with an
introduction and commentary by H.W. Bird., (Liverpool : Liverpool University
Press, 1993) |
|
| Ammianus Marcellinus
b.c 330 CE
Greek, but writes in Latin |
Res Gestae
[intended as a continuation of Tacitus -only books 14-31 survive in
a single 9th centuty copy]
English trans. as The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus, During
the Reigns of Emperor's Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinianm and
Valens, trans C.D. Young, Bohn's Classical Library, (London H.G. Bohn:
1862, repr. 1887, 1894)
ed. and English translation, J.C. Rolfe, Loeb Classical Library, 3 Vols,
(London and New York: 1935-39)
Partial English trans, Walter Hamilton, (New York: Penguin, 1986) |
353-378 CE |
| Anon
4C |
Augustan History
English trans. The lives of the Roman emperors from Domitian where
Suetonius ends, to Constantine the Great : containing those of Nerva and
Trajan from dion Cassius: a translation of the six writers of the Augustean
history,... John Bernard, (London : Printed for Charles Harper, 1698)
Partial English trans. as Lives of the Later Caesars, by Anthony
Birley, (Baltimore: Penguin, 1976) [also includes lives of Nerva and Trajan,
96-117CE] |
117-260 CE |
| Marcellinus, comes, fl. 500-534.
6C |
Latin and English. The Chronicle of Marcellinus : a
translation and commentary : (with a reproduction of Mommsen's edition
of the text), Brian Croke, (Sydney: Australian Association for Byzantine
Studies, 1995), Byzantina Australiensia 7. |
|
Useful Bibliographical Resources
Albu, Emily, "An Annotated Bibliography of Byzantine Sources in English
Translation", Byzantine Stuides/Etudes Byzantines 9:1 (1982), 68-87
Bak, Janos M., Medieval Narrative Sources: A chronological guide,
(New York: Garland, 1987).
Farrar, Clarissa P. and Austin P. Evans, Bibliography of English
Translations from Medieval Sources, (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1946)
Ferguson, Mary Ann Heyward, Bibliography of English Translations
from Medieval Sources, 1943-1967, (New York: Columbia University Press,
1967).
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