Home page - digilibLT
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale - Amedeo Avogadro Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Vercelli Regione Piemonte
  • Home
  • The project
  • News
  • Late antiquity on the web
  • Help
  • Contacts and feedback
  • Reserved area
  • DH Day 2021
English language Italian language
Large font size Default font size Small font size
Search

Find



  • Searchable works
  • Advanced search
  • Search the bibliography

Browse and download
  • Works
  • Authors
  • Bibliography
By date
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
  • VII
  • VIII
  • Uncertain date
  • All the works
By name
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • P
    • Q
    • R
    • S
    • T
    • V
  • All the works
Other resources
  • Modern studies on late antiquity
  • Canon of late-antique authors
  • Fonts and software to download
  • Download texts

Additional proponent

External link to the website of the Università degli studi di Torino

De summa temporum uel origine actibusque gentis Romanorum
Iordanes
Author Details

saec. VI
Catalogue entry
ID: DLT000295
Textual type: Historiography
Digital edition by the digilibLT group - Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale

Available downloads

Download the text in TXT Download the text in TEI Download the text in PDF Download the text in E-PUB Download the catalogue entry


Reference edition:

 

Iordanis Romana et Getica, recensuit Theodorus Mommsen, Berolini apud Weidmannos 1882, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica inde ab anno Christi quingentesimo usque ad annum millesimum et quingentesimum, edidit Societas Aperiendis Fontibus Rerum Germanicarum Medii Aevi, Auctorum antiquissimorum tomi V pars prior, Berolini apud Weidmannos 1882

The Romana, which the author describes as storiuncula directed at mediocres (Rom. 6-7), can be described as a composite of universal and Roman histories: beginning with Adam, Jordanes treats Abraham, the Assyrian kings, the Medes, and the Ptolemaic domination of the Egypt through to the Age of Augustus (Rom. 1-84); having come to this point, he leaps backwards and proceeds to recount the history of Rome from its foundation by Romulus through to the Age of Justinian, with the account becoming increasingly detailed (Rom. 85-388).  It remains extremely doubtful if or how much Jordanes’ Romana depends on Symmachus’ lost Historia Romana and on the family records of the Anicii (as Enßlin hypothesized, but see Croke and Girotti for differing conclusions), especially since our historian maintains that he drew on a number of sources (ex dictis maiorum floscula carpens, Rom. 2).  [G. Vanotti; tr. C. L. Caterine].


Preliminary steps: Laura Mosca
Text fitting: Valentina Rinaldi
TEI code: Valentina Rinaldi
Digital edition by the digilibLT group - Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
Back to list
Bibliography
  1. Alonso-Núñez, J. M. L'historien Jordanès comme source de l'histoire de la Péninsule Ibérique
  2. Alonso-Núñez, J. M. Los imperios universales en Jordanes
  3. Alonso-Núñez, J. M. Jordanes on Britain
  4. Bartoňková, D. Marcellinus Comes and Jordanes' Romana
  5. Blomstedt, Y. Studies in classical and modern philology presented to Y. M. Biese on the occasion of his eightieth birthday
  6. Bradley, D. R. In altum laxare vela compulsus. The "Getica" of Jordanes
  7. Calboli, G. Papers on grammar, X
  8. Callu, J. P. Ėcrire l'histoire à la fin de l'Empire

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  •   »

Creative Commons License This page licensed under Creative Commons Attribution - Non commercial - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Release 2.22 - Made by Step srl