The Epitome Of Livy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9315799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cynthia M Begbie (The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 332-338 |
| Publication date | 1967-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800028433 |
| OpenAlex | W2069520213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 3 |
A REFERENCE by the poet Martial to an abridged version of the history of Livy has given rise to the view that this epitome provided the main source for the transmission of Livy for those later writers of history whose requirements demanded an outline history of Rome. Such a view was first set out by Mommsen in 1861; he concluded that a large number of authors drew much of their material not from Livy directly but from a lost Epitome which departed at some points from the original in its composition. Other scholars followed his general thesis; indeed they have built upon it to such an extent that the list they compile of writers of Roman history who drew upon the ‘lost Epitome’ is a formidable one. These authors range from the period of Tiberius to the end of antiquity. They include such divergent writers as Valerius Maximus, Florus, Eutropius, the Auctor de viris illustribus , and Orosius, as well as the two known abbreviations made of Livy: the Periochae of the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus and the ‘fourth-century’ Periochae
Art · Epitome · Literature · Papyrus · Period (music · Roman Empire · Roman history · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods
The Temple Scroll in the Context of Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman Scholarly Texts
VIII. Literaturverzeichnis
Classical Revivals and “Pagan” Art
The Livian Revival
Conclusion
The Frigidus
Correctors and Critics II
The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus I
The Poem Against the Pagans
The “Pagan” Literary Revival
The Real Circle of Symmachus
Pagan Converts
Pagan Scholarship
Pagan Writers
Correctors and Critics I
Greek Texts and Latin Translation
From Constantius to Theodosius
Priests and Initiates
The Historia Augusta
Other Christian Verse Invectives
Macrobius and the “Pagan” Culture of his Age
The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus II
Pagans and Polytheists
Scale, space and canon in ancient literary culture
The Last Pagans of Rome
| Citations per year | 1.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |