Brian Croke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Croke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Croke |
| SIGNATURE | CROKE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anastasius I, Justin I and Vitalian: The political appropriation of Archangel Michael
Elusive Late Antique Historians (on B. Bleckmann et al., edd., Profane Zeitgeschichtsschreibung des ausgehenden 4. und frühen 5. Jahrhunderts)
Procopius and Thucydides: Defining the Gothic War year
Modern understanding of the emperor Justinian’s protracted war against the Gothic regime in Italy and Sicily is based almost entirely on the account of Procopius of Caesarea from 535 to 552. The chronology of the war therefore depends on the interpretation of Procopius’s narrative in the fundamental books by J.B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire (1923) and E. Stein, Histoire du Bas-Empire (1949), which underpin all modern accounts. Both Bu…
Dynasty and Aristocracy in the Fifth Century
Writing ‘True Stories’: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, ed. Arietta Papaconstantinou, with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy
Journal Article Writing ‘True Stories’: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, ed. Arietta Papaconstantinou, with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy Get access Writing ‘True Stories’: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, ed. Arietta Papaconstantinou, with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010; pp. 230. €60). Brian Croke Brian Croke Macquarie University/University of…
Menander Protector
Menander (ca. 550–ca. 605 CE ), historian and occasional poet, bore the honorary title of “protector,” bestowed either for his role in the emperor's service or for the history he wrote continuing that of Agathias from 558 to the death of the emperor Tiberios II in 582.
Marcellinus Comes
Marcellinus (ca. 480–ca. 540 CE ) bears the honorary title of “count” ( comes ), stemming from his years as an official of the emperor Justinian (527–565), though during the reign of his uncle Justin (518–527).
Zosimus, historian
Zosimus (fifth century CE ), bearing the title of “advocate for the treasury” ( advocatus fisci ) that reflects his career position at some stage, wrote what he called a “New History.”
Late Antique Historiography, 250–650 ce
The Greco-Roman tradition of history writing proved immensely durable. From the third to the seventh centuries Herodotus and Thucydides, Sallust and Livy, were still being read and copied in both east and west. Jerome suggested that just as budding generals aspired to be the new Camillus or Scipio, so should new historians seek to emulate Thucydides and Herodotus, Sallust and Livy. He introduced young students to Sallust and Livy and presumed oth…
Latin Historiography and the Barbarian Kingdoms
This chapter is concerned with surveying the works of various sixth-century Latin historians (the anonymous Italian writer of the Excerpta Valesiana , Cassiodorus, Jordanes, Gildas and Gregory of Tours) with a focus on how they conceptualised and executed their historiographical task, as well as how their audience and purpose influenced their historical narratives. As investigations of sixth century culture and society have begun to displace expl…
Studies in John Malalas
The Era of Porphyry's Anti‐Christian Polemic
Marcellinus on Dara: "A Fragment of His Lost "De Temporum Qualitatibus et Positionibus Locorum
M ARCELLINUS comes, AN OFFICIAL OF JUSTINIAN during the reign of Justin I in the early 520s and a fellow Illyrian, is best known for his chronicle continuing that of Jerome from the accession of Theodosius I (379) to the death of Anastasius (518), which he later updated to the reconquest of Vandal North Africa in 534.1 The popularity and survival of the chronicle, an important source for the fifth and early sixth century especially for events in …
Porphyry's Anti-Christian Chronology
Journal Article PORPHYRY'S ANTI-CHRISTIAN CHRONOLOGY Get access BRIAN CROKE BRIAN CROKE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 34, Issue 1, April 1983, Pages 168–185, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/34.1.168 Published: 01 April 1983
Procopius and Dara
The question of the degree of continuity in urban life from antiquity into later times has recently emerged as a preoccupation among scholars of the late antique and early medieval periods. Considerable attention is currently being devoted to the fate of the classical city and of the traditional patterns of urban life, with special reference to features such as reduction of physical area in individual cities, decline of population, changes in use…
The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus
This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a commented conspectus of the fragments, and essays on the individual historians. In vol. II the texts themselves are printed, with English translations and historiographical notes. Included also is a correlation of Blockley's order with the older numbering of Muller, Dindorf and Niebuhr, and indices of name…
The Misunderstanding of Cassiodorus Institutiones 1. 17. 2
Among the many codices carried by Cassiodorus when he returned to Italy from Constantinople in the early 550s was a copy of the chronicle of Marcellinus, an Illyrian who had lived for many years in Constantinople before writing his chronicle in A.D. 518/519. The chronicle covered events from 379 to the death of Anastasius (518) and was later continued by Marcellinus to 534. 1 That the chronicle is preserved at all is due partly to the fact that C…
Die frühbyzantinische Gesellschaft: Struktur, Gegensätze, Spannungen . Franz Tinnefeld
Procopius and Dara
The question of the degree of continuity in urban life from antiquity into later times has recently emerged as a preoccupation among scholars of the late antique and early medieval periods. Considerable attention is currently being devoted to the fate of the classical city and of the traditional patterns of urban life, with special reference to features such as reduction of physical area in individual cities, decline of population, changes in use…
Porphyry's Anti-Christian Chronology
Journal Article PORPHYRY'S ANTI-CHRISTIAN CHRONOLOGY Get access BRIAN CROKE BRIAN CROKE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 34, Issue 1, April 1983, Pages 168–185, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/34.1.168 Published: 01 April 1983
The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus
This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a commented conspectus of the fragments, and essays on the individual historians. In vol. II the texts themselves are printed, with English translations and historiographical notes. Included also is a correlation of Blockley's order with the older numbering of Muller, Dindorf and Niebuhr, and indices of name…
Die frühbyzantinische Gesellschaft: Struktur, Gegensätze, Spannungen . Franz Tinnefeld
The Misunderstanding of Cassiodorus Institutiones 1. 17. 2
Among the many codices carried by Cassiodorus when he returned to Italy from Constantinople in the early 550s was a copy of the chronicle of Marcellinus, an Illyrian who had lived for many years in Constantinople before writing his chronicle in A.D. 518/519. The chronicle covered events from 379 to the death of Anastasius (518) and was later continued by Marcellinus to 534. 1 That the chronicle is preserved at all is due partly to the fact that C…
Porphyry's Anti-Christian Chronology
Journal Article PORPHYRY'S ANTI-CHRISTIAN CHRONOLOGY Get access BRIAN CROKE BRIAN CROKE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 34, Issue 1, April 1983, Pages 168–185, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/34.1.168 Published: 01 April 1983
Procopius and Dara
The question of the degree of continuity in urban life from antiquity into later times has recently emerged as a preoccupation among scholars of the late antique and early medieval periods. Considerable attention is currently being devoted to the fate of the classical city and of the traditional patterns of urban life, with special reference to features such as reduction of physical area in individual cities, decline of population, changes in use…
The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus
This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a commented conspectus of the fragments, and essays on the individual historians. In vol. II the texts themselves are printed, with English translations and historiographical notes. Included also is a correlation of Blockley's order with the older numbering of Muller, Dindorf and Niebuhr, and indices of name…
The Era of Porphyry's Anti‐Christian Polemic
Marcellinus on Dara: "A Fragment of His Lost "De Temporum Qualitatibus et Positionibus Locorum
M ARCELLINUS comes, AN OFFICIAL OF JUSTINIAN during the reign of Justin I in the early 520s and a fellow Illyrian, is best known for his chronicle continuing that of Jerome from the accession of Theodosius I (379) to the death of Anastasius (518), which he later updated to the reconquest of Vandal North Africa in 534.1 The popularity and survival of the chronicle, an important source for the fifth and early sixth century especially for events in …
Studies in John Malalas
Latin Historiography and the Barbarian Kingdoms
This chapter is concerned with surveying the works of various sixth-century Latin historians (the anonymous Italian writer of the Excerpta Valesiana , Cassiodorus, Jordanes, Gildas and Gregory of Tours) with a focus on how they conceptualised and executed their historiographical task, as well as how their audience and purpose influenced their historical narratives. As investigations of sixth century culture and society have begun to displace expl…
Late Antique Historiography, 250–650 ce
The Greco-Roman tradition of history writing proved immensely durable. From the third to the seventh centuries Herodotus and Thucydides, Sallust and Livy, were still being read and copied in both east and west. Jerome suggested that just as budding generals aspired to be the new Camillus or Scipio, so should new historians seek to emulate Thucydides and Herodotus, Sallust and Livy. He introduced young students to Sallust and Livy and presumed oth…
Menander Protector
Menander (ca. 550–ca. 605 CE ), historian and occasional poet, bore the honorary title of “protector,” bestowed either for his role in the emperor's service or for the history he wrote continuing that of Agathias from 558 to the death of the emperor Tiberios II in 582.
Marcellinus Comes
Marcellinus (ca. 480–ca. 540 CE ) bears the honorary title of “count” ( comes ), stemming from his years as an official of the emperor Justinian (527–565), though during the reign of his uncle Justin (518–527).
Zosimus, historian
Zosimus (fifth century CE ), bearing the title of “advocate for the treasury” ( advocatus fisci ) that reflects his career position at some stage, wrote what he called a “New History.”
Dynasty and Aristocracy in the Fifth Century
Writing ‘True Stories’: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, ed. Arietta Papaconstantinou, with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy
Journal Article Writing ‘True Stories’: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, ed. Arietta Papaconstantinou, with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy Get access Writing ‘True Stories’: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, ed. Arietta Papaconstantinou, with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010; pp. 230. €60). Brian Croke Brian Croke Macquarie University/University of…
Procopius and Thucydides: Defining the Gothic War year
Modern understanding of the emperor Justinian’s protracted war against the Gothic regime in Italy and Sicily is based almost entirely on the account of Procopius of Caesarea from 535 to 552. The chronology of the war therefore depends on the interpretation of Procopius’s narrative in the fundamental books by J.B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire (1923) and E. Stein, Histoire du Bas-Empire (1949), which underpin all modern accounts. Both Bu…
Elusive Late Antique Historians (on B. Bleckmann et al., edd., Profane Zeitgeschichtsschreibung des ausgehenden 4. und frühen 5. Jahrhunderts)
Anastasius I, Justin I and Vitalian: The political appropriation of Archangel Michael
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