Historici graeci minores 2 Volume Set

Historici graeci minores 2 Volume Set

by Ludwig August Dindorf (Editor)
Historici graeci minores 2 Volume Set

Historici graeci minores 2 Volume Set

by Ludwig August Dindorf (Editor)

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Overview

This two-volume edition (with commentary in Latin) of the surviving fragments of the works of minor Greek historians was published by German philologist Ludwig August Dindorf (1805–71) in 1870–1. Brother of the better known scholar K. W. Dindorf, Ludwig collaborated with him for nearly thirty years on an edition of Robert Estienne's Thesaurus linguae graecae, and published on several Greek historians, but led such a reclusive life that his name was sometimes thought to be a pseudonym. Many of the authors in this edition are classed as 'minor' largely because so little of their output has survived. For example, according to later sources, Nicolaus Damascenus (born c.64 BCE) was a friend of Herod the Great, and tutor to the children of Antony and Cleopatra. He wrote a history of the world in 144 volumes, scientific works, and biographies of Augustus and Herod, of which only fragments remain.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108083553
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 05/17/2018
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
Pages: 1094
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.66(h) x 2.76(d)
Language: Latin

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Praefatio; Collatio codicum monacensium; Nicolaus Damascenus; Pausanias Damascenus; Dexippus; Eusebius; Eunapius; Priscus; Eustathius Epiphaniensis; Nestorianus; Magnus et Eutychianus; Ioannes Epiphaniensis; Malchus; Petrus; Praxagoras; Candidus; Theophanes Byzantius; Olympiodorus; Nonnosus; Index. Volume 2: Praefatio; Menandri historiarum summaria; Niebuhrii commentatio de vita Agathiae eiusque libris historiarum; Menandri fragmenta; Agathias; Agathiae epigrammata; Index.
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