| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) |
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Routledge Classical Translations |
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Routledge classical translations
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| Contents |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: The Epitome of Histories; PROLOGUE; POSTSCRIPT: Book XVIII. 29; COMMENTARY ON PROLOGUE AND POSTSCRIPT; BOOK XII. 15-35; COMMENTARY ON BOOK XII. 15-35; BOOK XIII. 1-19; COMMENTARY ON BOOK XIII. 1-19; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ZONARAS' MILITARY AND ADMINISTRATIVE TERMINOLOGY; INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED; INDEX OF PEOPLE AND PLACES |
| Summary |
While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where€his sources are lost or appear elsewhere in more truncated form, €his testimony and the identification of the texts on which€he depends are of critical importance. For his account of the first two centuries of the Principate, Zonaras employed now-lost portions of Cassius Dio. From the point where Dio?s History ended, to the reign of Theodosius |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emperors -- Rome.
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476
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Rome -- History -- Period of military anarchy, 235-284
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Rome -- History -- Severans, 193-235
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Emperors
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lane, Eugene
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| ISBN |
9780203882047 |
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0203882040 |
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