Book Details
Orange Code:93038
Paperback:550 pages
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1. Historiography in the Age of Constantine2. Ammianus Marcellinus3. Minor Latin Historians of the Fourth Century A.D.4. The Historia Augusta and Pagan Historiography5. The Church Historians after Eusebius6. Pagan Historiography and the Decline of the Empire7. The Church Historians (I): Socrates, Sozomenus, and Theodoretus8. The Church Historians (II): Philostorgius and Gelasius of Cyzicus9. The Development of Greek Historiography: Priscus, Malchus, Candidus10. Latin Historiography: Jerome, Orosius and the Western Chronicles11. Latin Historiography and the Barbarian Kingdoms12. Historiography in the East13. The Church Historians and Chalcedon14. The Beginning of Byzantine Chronography: John Malalas
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This book offers the first comprehensive study of Greek and Latin historiography from Constantine to the age of Justinian, dealing particularly with the relations between pagan and Christian historians, their polemics and also their agreements. Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005).
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