George Woudhuysen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5637449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Woudhuysen |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Woudhuysen |
| SIGNATURE | WOUDHUYSEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8199-4665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ammianus Marcellinus, Libanius and Late Roman Names
This article considers the vexed problem of whether the letters of the Antiochene sophist Libanius provide evidence for the life and career of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. After brief consideration of the debate on Ep . 1063, it turns to Ep . 233 of a.d. 360, which mentions an Ammianus in imperial service, setting out the various attempts to identify this individual as the historian. It then outlines the later Roman onomastic system, casti…
Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces
Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman West is remarkably understudied. A deeper understanding of this important issue is crucial to any reconstruction of the broader story of linguistic continuity and change in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to the history of the communities who wr…
The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor
A radical rewriting of the history of fourth-century Latin literature Demonstrates for the first time both the contemporary and lasting influence of Victor’s historiography Discusses a wide range of both canonical and neglected authors and texts, including Sallust, St Jerome, Ammianus, the Historia Augusta , Eunapius and Julian Provides an up-to-date account of the mechanics of abbreviating texts in late antiquity, an important and relatively neg…
Historiarum Libri Quinque
This article examines the influence of Sallust on Hegesippus, the fourth-century historian and adaptor of Josephus (commonly referred to as pseudo-Hegesippus). Analysis of the structure of his work reveals that Hegesippus strove to write in five books to mirror the Histories of Sallust. Consideration of the lengths of those books and of other evidence then shows that Sallust’s Histories were themselves written in five substantial books of ca. 20,…
The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta
Lurking in the Historia Augusta's life of the short-lived Emperor Carus is what appears to be a reference to the genuine contemporary poet Nemesianus and an extant work by him, the Cynegetica . Given the HA's predilection for ‘bogus authors’, this is rather surprising, but because some of what the HA says about Nemesianus is true, the otherwise unique details of his life and works that it provides have been generally accepted. We show first that …
Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus
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. 51/2). We then explore some of the implications of this re-dating for our understanding of the text and…
Codex Nicholsonianus
Frankness is not a quality one naturally associates with Themistius, that most sinuous of the fourth century's official spokesmen, but the opening of his first speech (‘On the Love of Mankind’) is disarmingly frank. Invited to address Constantius II at Ancyra in the spring of 342, the young orator had an unusually difficult brief: violent riots in Constantinople had recently seen Hermogenes (a senior general) killed by a mob, relations with Const…
Myrmeicus or Myrmecius
In this article, I examine the name of a friend and correspondent of the fourth-century poet Rufius Festus Avienius, commonly identified hitherto as Flavianus Myrmeicus. After summarising the current state of research and translating the verse epistle which he received, I argue that, for a variety of reasons, Myrmeicus cannot be his name. Instead, it should be emended to Myrmecius, which was his signum : an example of a type of nickname which man…
Assembling the Austrasian Letters at T rier and L orsch
This article is a reconsideration of the Epistulae Austrasicae . We critique the widespread notion that the constituent letters were compiled by a courtier in the late sixth century at Metz as a book of models for use in the Austrasian chancellery. We argue instead that a monk from the monastery of Lorsch assembled the letters in the early ninth century from individual exemplars and groupings that he found in archives at T rier. We conclude by ou…
Myrmeicus or Myrmecius
In this article, I examine the name of a friend and correspondent of the fourth-century poet Rufius Festus Avienius, commonly identified hitherto as Flavianus Myrmeicus. After summarising the current state of research and translating the verse epistle which he received, I argue that, for a variety of reasons, Myrmeicus cannot be his name. Instead, it should be emended to Myrmecius, which was his signum : an example of a type of nickname which man…
Assembling the Austrasian Letters at T rier and L orsch
This article is a reconsideration of the Epistulae Austrasicae . We critique the widespread notion that the constituent letters were compiled by a courtier in the late sixth century at Metz as a book of models for use in the Austrasian chancellery. We argue instead that a monk from the monastery of Lorsch assembled the letters in the early ninth century from individual exemplars and groupings that he found in archives at T rier. We conclude by ou…
The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor
A radical rewriting of the history of fourth-century Latin literature Demonstrates for the first time both the contemporary and lasting influence of Victor’s historiography Discusses a wide range of both canonical and neglected authors and texts, including Sallust, St Jerome, Ammianus, the Historia Augusta , Eunapius and Julian Provides an up-to-date account of the mechanics of abbreviating texts in late antiquity, an important and relatively neg…
Assembling the Austrasian Letters at T rier and L orsch
This article is a reconsideration of the Epistulae Austrasicae . We critique the widespread notion that the constituent letters were compiled by a courtier in the late sixth century at Metz as a book of models for use in the Austrasian chancellery. We argue instead that a monk from the monastery of Lorsch assembled the letters in the early ninth century from individual exemplars and groupings that he found in archives at T rier. We conclude by ou…
Myrmeicus or Myrmecius
In this article, I examine the name of a friend and correspondent of the fourth-century poet Rufius Festus Avienius, commonly identified hitherto as Flavianus Myrmeicus. After summarising the current state of research and translating the verse epistle which he received, I argue that, for a variety of reasons, Myrmeicus cannot be his name. Instead, it should be emended to Myrmecius, which was his signum : an example of a type of nickname which man…
Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus
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. 51/2). We then explore some of the implications of this re-dating for our understanding of the text and…
Codex Nicholsonianus
Frankness is not a quality one naturally associates with Themistius, that most sinuous of the fourth century's official spokesmen, but the opening of his first speech (‘On the Love of Mankind’) is disarmingly frank. Invited to address Constantius II at Ancyra in the spring of 342, the young orator had an unusually difficult brief: violent riots in Constantinople had recently seen Hermogenes (a senior general) killed by a mob, relations with Const…
Historiarum Libri Quinque
This article examines the influence of Sallust on Hegesippus, the fourth-century historian and adaptor of Josephus (commonly referred to as pseudo-Hegesippus). Analysis of the structure of his work reveals that Hegesippus strove to write in five books to mirror the Histories of Sallust. Consideration of the lengths of those books and of other evidence then shows that Sallust’s Histories were themselves written in five substantial books of ca. 20,…
The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta
Lurking in the Historia Augusta's life of the short-lived Emperor Carus is what appears to be a reference to the genuine contemporary poet Nemesianus and an extant work by him, the Cynegetica . Given the HA's predilection for ‘bogus authors’, this is rather surprising, but because some of what the HA says about Nemesianus is true, the otherwise unique details of his life and works that it provides have been generally accepted. We show first that …
Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces
Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman West is remarkably understudied. A deeper understanding of this important issue is crucial to any reconstruction of the broader story of linguistic continuity and change in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to the history of the communities who wr…
The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor
A radical rewriting of the history of fourth-century Latin literature Demonstrates for the first time both the contemporary and lasting influence of Victor’s historiography Discusses a wide range of both canonical and neglected authors and texts, including Sallust, St Jerome, Ammianus, the Historia Augusta , Eunapius and Julian Provides an up-to-date account of the mechanics of abbreviating texts in late antiquity, an important and relatively neg…
Ammianus Marcellinus, Libanius and Late Roman Names
This article considers the vexed problem of whether the letters of the Antiochene sophist Libanius provide evidence for the life and career of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. After brief consideration of the debate on Ep . 1063, it turns to Ep . 233 of a.d. 360, which mentions an Ammianus in imperial service, setting out the various attempts to identify this individual as the historian. It then outlines the later Roman onomastic system, casti…
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