The Early Byzantine Historians

by Treadgold, Warren

• ISBN13: 9780230243675
• ISBN10: 0230243673
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Early Byzantine Historiansis the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after 641?). Individually and as a group, these authors had a decisive influence on Byzantine culture and modern perceptions of Byzantine history.

Author Biography

Warren Treadgold is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies at Saint Louis University, USA, and author of many books and articles on Byzantine history and literature, including A History of the Byzantine State and Society (1997) and A Concise History of Byzantium (2001).

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
The Greek Background	p. 1
Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon	p. 2
Hellenistic historians	p. 9
Greek historians under Rome	p. 13
The Byzantines and the Greek historians	p. 17
Eusebius of Caesarea	p. 23
Eusebius's life	p. 23
The Chronicle	p. 26
The History of the Chruch	p. 33
The life of Constantine	p. 41
Ammianus Marcellinus	p. 47
Ammianus' life	p. 51
Ammianus' History	p. 60
Ammianus's achievement	p. 68
The New Classical Historians	p. 79
Eunapius of Sardis	p. 81
Olympiodorus of Thebes	p. 89
Priscus of Panium	p. 96
Candidus and Malchus	p. 103
Count zosimus	p. 107
Eustathius of Epiphania	p. 114
The New Church Historians	p. 121
Eusebius'first successors	p. 121
Philostorgius of Borissus	p. 126
Socrates of Constantinople	p. 134
Sozomen of Bethelea	p. 145
Theodoret of Cyrrhus	p. 155
The decline of church history	p. 165
Procopius of Caesarea	p. 176
Procopius' active career	p. 176
Procopius' literary career	p. 184
The "Persian War"	p. 192
The "Vandal War"	p. 195
The "Gothic War"	p. 199
The Secret History	p. 205
Procopius' achievement	p. 213
Procopius' Contemporaries	p. 227
Count Marcellinus	p. 227
John Malalas 235
Malalas'sources	p. 246
Nonnosus	p. 256
John the Lydian	p. 258
Peter the Patrician	p. 264
Hesychius of Miletus	p. 308
Procopius' Successors	p. 279
Agathias of Myrina	p. 279
Theophanes of Byzantium	p. 290
Menander Protector	p. 293
Evagrius Scholasticus	p. 299
John of Epiphania	p. 308
The Last Early Byzantine Historians	p. 311
John of Antioch	p. 311
Theophylact Simocatta	p. 329
The "Paschal Chronicle" and the long silence	p. 340
The Historians as a Group	p. 350
The historians	p. 351
The histories	p. 361
The historiography	p. 368
Chronological Table of the Early Byzantine Historians	p. 382
List of English Translations of the Early Byzantine Historians	p. 385
Bibliography	p. 387
Index	p. 401
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