1st Edition

The Lost History of Peter the Patrician An Account of Rome's Imperial Past from the Age of Justinian

By Thomas Banchich Copyright 2015
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

The Lost History of Peter the Patrician  is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter’s History , including additional fragments which are now more often considered the work of the Roman historian Cassius Dio's so-called Anonymous Continuer. Banchich’s annotation helps clarify the relationship of Peter's work to that of Cassius Dio. Focusing on the historical and... Read more

Introduction





Peter’s History





Testimony





Fragments and Commentary







Indices



Biography



Thomas M. Banchich is Professor of Classics and History at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York. His research interests include ancient philosophy, history, and historiography. He is the author of The History of Zonaras (Routledge, 2009).

"Banchich is to be commended for a very valuable contribution ... his rendering of Peter’s fragments into English has been shaped in such a way that it will not only fill the existing gap of an English translation of all early Byzantine fragmentary historians, but will permit English-speaking scholars to advance their research with an enigmatic set of fragments whose final provenance and nature has still a long way to go before it is finally solved."

- Panagiotis Antonopoulos, University of Ioannina (Greece), in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review