Procopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars

Translation, with Introduction and Notes
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-107-16570-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Procopius was the major historian of the reign of Justinian and one of the most important historians of Late Antiquity. This is the first stand-alone English translation of his work Persian Wars. It offers a new translation, which has at its basis one published fifty years ago by Averil Cameron. The Persian Wars, despite the title, is a wide-ranging work that reports the history and geography not only of Mesopotamia and the Caucasus, but also of southern Arabia and Ethiopia, Iran and Central Asia, and Constantinople itself. This book is equipped with notes, maps and plans, an introduction, and a translation of a further Greek text, that of Nonnosus, which overlaps with Procopius'. It will be of benefit to specialists and the general reader alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greatrex, Geoffrey

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cameron, Averil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Conclusion; Tables of Names; Explanation of the Notes; List of Primary Sources; Glossary; Book 1; Book 2: Nonnosus; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Greatrex, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Greatrex is a Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa and President of the Canadian Committee of Byzantinists. He has spent the past thirty years in research on the late Roman eastern frontier, much of it concerned with the work of Procopius, and has published extensively on the subject.