REPORTING BATTLES AND UNDERSTANDING CAMPAIGNS IN PROCOPIUS AND AGATHIAS: CLASSICISING HISTORIANS’ USE OF ARCHIVED DOCUMENTS AS SOURCES

Autor:	Ian Colvin
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Archeology Classics
Zdroj:	Late Antique Archaeology. 8:569-597
ISSN:	2213-4522 1570-6893
DOI:	10.1163/22134522-90000018a
Popis:	This paper identifies the source material for Procopius’ and Agathias’ military narratives of Justinian’s Lazican war, A.D. 548–57, as specific, archived documents. Their use of these archived documents explains striking characteristics of their accounts of battles and campaigns, not only in Lazica, but also in other parts of their histories. The commonly-held scholarly view that Procopius and Agathias, and perhaps other classicising historians, were largely dependent on oral sources, or in the case of Procopius on autopsy and oral sources, should therefore be modified.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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