UID:
almafu_9959063529402883
Format:
1 online resource (188 p.)
ISBN:
9783110972412
Series Statement:
Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
Content:
Best known for his longest excerptum about Attila and the Huns, Priscus Panita survives mostly in Excerpta Constantiniana de legationibus. He describes with an impressive amount of details a Byzantine embassy and the secret plot to kill Attila in 448/449 A.D., when Priscus himself was involved in a scary situation. He also investigates Theodosius II's age around other borders, such as Caucasus and Aegypt.After a new collation and full reconsideration of all manuscripts, this critical edition provides a complete demonstration of the stemma codicum and an accurate apparatus, both philological desiderata for long. The text is plain and fluent, a good example of V century A.D. rhetorical prose, with a wide range of loci similes in classic authors and a special skill for variatio. From a historical point of view, some nations from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa find in Priscus a unique source for their roots.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Hoc libro Continentur --
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Praefatio --
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Librorum conspectus --
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Sigla atque breviata --
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Testimonia de Prisco --
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Excerpta de legationibus --
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Excerpta de obsidionibus --
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Excerpta de legationibus (sequuntur) --
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Excerpta incertae sedis --
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Fragmenta dubia --
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Index nominum --
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Index locorum --
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Index fontium fragmentarum dubiorum --
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Tabulae
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In Greek, Ancient (to 1453).
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110201383
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
DOI:
10.1515/9783110972412
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110972412
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110972412
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110972412
