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Excerpta et fragmenta

Excerpta et fragmenta

Priscus Panita
Carolla, Pia

Hardcover

Series: Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana, Book 2000

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 3110201380
ISBN13: 9783110201383
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Oct 20 2008
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.00
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

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.

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