Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus
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https://doi.org/10.29173/histos471Keywords:
Epitome de Caesaribus, Jordanes, transmission, prose rhythm, later Latin literature, Roman historiansAbstract
The Epitome de Caesaribus is universally assumed to be a work of the late fourth or early fifth centuries. In this article, we demonstrate that the Epitome was in fact compiled at some point after the middle of the sixth century, by showing, on textual and philological grounds, that it has drawn extensively on the Romana of Jordanes (written c. 51/2). We then explore some of the implications of this re-dating for our understanding of the text and its reception in late antiquity.
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