Classicizing History and Historical Epitomes
Michael Kulikowski
Ancient Greek and Latin authors had strict rules about genre that they obeyed even though lacked a fixed vocabulary to describe them. Classicizing history formed continuous tradition in discontinuous one Latin, but was of the major ways writing past late antiquity. This contribution surveys development classicizing breviaria from third seventh centuries, taking fragmentary historians period, Ammianus Marcellinus, Procopius, last