Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus

Woudhuysen, George; Stover, Justin

Abstract

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. 551/2). We then explore some of the implications of this re-dating for our understanding of the text and its reception in late antiquity.

Citation

Woudhuysen, G., & Stover, J. (2021). Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus. Histos, 15, 150-188

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 6, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jun 16, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Apr 7, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 16, 2021
• Journal: Histos
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Pages: 150-188
• Series ISSN: 2046-5963
• Keywords: Epitome de Caesaribus, Jordanes, transmission, prose rhythm, later Latin literature, Roman historians
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5434628
• Publisher URL: https://histos.org/documents/2021AA06Stover-WoudhuysenJordanes.pdf
• Related Public URLs: https://histos.org/index.html
• Additional Information: Copyright © 2021 Justin A. Stover and George Woudhuysen