Burgess Roman Imperial Chronology and Early-Fourth-Century Historiography

The Regnal Durations of the So-called "Chronica urbis Romae" of the "Chronograph of 354"
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-515-10732-7
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 234, 208 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Historia – Einzelschriften.

The so-called Chronica urbis Romae has long been valued for the exact year-month-day figures that it gives for the reign of every Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to Licinius, especially those for the emperors of the third century, whose dates of accession and death are for the most part unknown. This e-book, for the first time, submits every year-month-day figure found in this text to a detailed historiographical analysis that puts our understanding of the historical accounts of the chronologies of the Roman emperors – particularly those of the third century – on a completely new footing. In so doing it provides new insights into the nature of this text and the methods of Roman historians. This volume concludes with detailed studies of the chronological information on Roman emperors provided by Cassius Dio and the witnesses to the now-lost fourth-century Kaisergeschichte; a new critical edition and translation of the text based upon a fresh examination of all the manuscripts and made in the light of recent studies; and an analysis of the verbal parallels between this text and other surviving Greek and Latin histories, particularly those of the fourth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burgess, Richard W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;FOREWORD;6
2;TABLE OF CONTENTS;8
3;ABBREVIATIONS;9
4;1. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXT;10
5;2. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM AND THIS STUDY;16
6;3. THE PRE-ROMAN KINGS OF ITALY AND ALBA LONGA;20
7;4. THE MAJOR SOURCES;29
8;5. THE ROMAN EMPERORS FROM JULIUS CAESAR TO LICINIUS;35
9;6. SUMMARY;88
10;7. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS;116
11;APPENDIX 1. THE IMPERIAL CHRONOLOGIES OF CASSIUS DIO;120
12;APPENDIX 2. THE WITNESSES TO THE KAISERGESCHICHTE;136
13;APPENDIX 3. CRITICAL EDITION AND TRANSLATION OF THE BREVIARIUM VINDOBONENSE;143
14;APPENDIX 4. PARALLELS IN OTHER TEXTS;159
15;BIBLIOGRAPHY;194
16;INDEX;201

Über Autor(innen)

Burgess, Richard W.
R. W. Burgess has taught at the University of Ottawa since 1989. He has written five books, forty-five articles and chapters, and almost seventy encyclopedia articles on chronicles, Late Roman history and historiography, and numismatics. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.