Brill, 2009. — xxxi, 347 p. — (Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus 8). Book 27 deals with events between 365 and 370. Military operations in the western and eastern half of the Empire take up a large part of the available space. Apart from military matters Ammianus deals with internal affairs. He discusses the terms of office of four Roman urban...
Brill, 2005. — xxvi, 422 p. — (Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus 6). Book 25 of Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae is the final part of the trilogy (books 23-25) on the emperor Julian's Persian expedition. Covering a period of eight months, from June 17, 363 to February 17, 364, it contains a series of momentous events: the death of Julian on June 26,...
Brill, 2007. — xxx, 358 p. — (Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus 7). Book 26 of Ammianus' Res Gestae is the first of the hexad which deals with the rule of the emperors Valentinian and Valens (364-378). In the first five chapters Ammianus describes the election of Valentinian, who appointed his brother Valens as his co-ruler, and subsequently divided...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 382 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Tacitus' account of Nero's principate is an extraordinary piece of historical writing. His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the Roman Empire. It describes how the imperial system survived Nero's flamboyant and hedonistic...
София: Христо Ботев, 1993. — 152 с. Превод: Цветана Панициду, Харалампи Паницидис Ръкописът на Атинската полития е открит през 1890 г. върху обратната страна на четири папирусни листа, донесени в Британския музей от Египет и съдържащи отчета на управител на имение за неговия господар от времето на император Веспасиан, около 78-79 г. от новата ера. Това представлява последният...
Tranoy Alain (ed.). — Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1974. — 183 p. — (Sources Chrétiennes 218). La Chronique d’Hydace, qui va de 379 à 469, fait suite à la Chronique de Jérôme. Évêque de la péninsule ibérique de 427 à 469, Hydace de Chaves, en Galice, y décrit les grandes invasions barbares, les menaces auxquelles doit faire face le pouvoir impérial et les « temps de misère »...
Tranoy Alain (ed.). — Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1974. — 169 p. — (Sources Chrétiennes 219). La Chronique d’Hydace, qui va de 379 à 469, fait suite à la Chronique de Jérôme. Évêque de la péninsule ibérique de 427 à 469, Hydace de Chaves, en Galice, y décrit les grandes invasions barbares, les menaces auxquelles doit faire face le pouvoir impérial et les « temps de misère »...
Huitink Luuk, Rood Tim (eds.). — Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 234 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). This is the first comprehensive commentary on a section of Xenophon's Anabasis in English for almost a century. It provides up-to-date guidance on literary, historical and cultural aspects of the Anabasis and will help undergraduate students to read Greek better....
Woodman Anthony John, Kraus Christina Shuttleworth (eds.). — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 370 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). The first work of any great historian has always commanded attention, and Tacitus was ancient Rome's very greatest historian. His biography of his father-in-law, governor of Britain in the years AD 77–84, is a literary masterpiece: it...
Pelling Christopher (ed.). — Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 306 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). "As Book 7 opens, things are looking good for the Athenians in Sicily. It is summer 414 bce, and they have been there for a year. Book 6 described the important decision taken in Athens a year before. At that point an uneasy peace had prevailed since 421, an interval...
Carter John M. (ed.). — Bristol Classical Press, 2003. — 235 p. — (Latin Texts). This useful edition of Suetonius' Life of Augustus, one of twelve imperial biographies contained in that author's De vita Caesarum, was first published by Oxford University Press in 1927. It includes the Latin text, Chronology, detailed Notes on the text and comprehensive indexes. In 1982 it was...
With Introduction, translation and Commentary by George W. Mooney. — New York: Arno Press Inc., 1979. — 676 p. — (Latin texts and commentaries). Contents. Page Introduction The Lite Or Suetonius The Lives Of The Caesars Sources Or The Lives Of The Caesars The Other Works Of Suetonius The Mss. Or The Lives Of The Caesars Editions And Translations Or The Lives Of The Caesars Text...
Bristol Classical Press, 2002. — 195 p. Nero's suicide in AD 68 was followed by a disastrous civil war that left the empire in a parlous state and saw the demise, in quick succession, of another three emperors (Galba, Otho and Vitellius). Normality returned with Vespasian and his sons, Titus and Domitian who ruled from 69 to 96. They changed the face of Rome, with massive...
Second Edition. — London: Bristol Classical Press, 2003. — 108 p. This edition of Suetonius’ Nero is designed primarily for students in schools and universities to read as an important example of Latin biography and as a major source for some of the most dramatic events in the history of the first century ad. The notes are almost all devoted to the explanation of historical...
Krebs Christopher B. (ed.). — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 404 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). This is the first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. It attempts a contextualized reading of the work through the eyes of a contemporary Roman reader, who was trained in rhetoric, versed in Greek and Roman literature, and...
Cary Max, Butler H.E., Townend G.B. (eds.). — Bristol Classical Press, 1991. — 185 p. This edition of Suetonius' life of Julius Caesar is a revision by G.B. Townend of the Butler-Cary edition of1927. It includes introduction, bibliography, the Latin text, and notes on the text.
Bristol Classical Press, 2000. — 192 p. The emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) is universally regarded as one of the better Roman emperors. Coming to the throne after the demise of Nero and the bitterness of a year-long civil war, he restored the empire's finances and inaugurated a period of peace and prosperity. Tacitus, Pliny and Josephus had a high regard for Vespasian, portraying...
Brill, 2002. — xxviii, 606 p. First published in 1977, the Breviarium Urbis Romae Antiquae is a classic among the literary Rome guides for those who want to be guided by the classics on their walks through the Eternal City. It aims at providing the reader with a collection of texts giving the most important information on the building activities of the Roman aediles which can...
Bologna: Pàtron, 2007. — 720 p. — (Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del Latino 92). Un classico della letteratura latina, con edizione e traduzione e con ampio commento critico-filologico, esegetico e stilistico. Sallustio seppe sollevarsi dagli insuccessi della politica dedicandosi all’attività storiografica e seppe vedere nella vita il positivo e il negativo,...
Brill, 1998. — xxiv, 394 p. This fascicle, presenting fragmentary biographical texts of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the first in a series of eight which will deal with all surviving fragments of ancient Greek biographical writing. Before Greek biography emerged as a literary genre of its own at the beginning of the Hellenistic period, biographical interest already...
София: Народна култура, 1995. — 397 с. Превод от старогръцки: Владимир Атанасов Ксенофонт е древногръцки военен, атински пълководец и политически деятел, живял през V и IV век пр. Хр. По-късно през живота си става писател и историк, като сред съчиненията му се числят Анабазис , Гръцка история , Спомени за Сократ , Апология на Сократ , Пирът , Лакедемонската държавна уредба ,...
Введение, перевод и комментарий Шифмана И.Ш. — М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1980. — 344 с. Издание содержит арамейский и греческий тексты и перевод на русский язык пальмирского пошлинного тарифа – важнейшего источника по социально-экономической истории Ближнего Востока эпохи принципата. Обстоятельное введение и подробный историко-филологический комментарий...
Перевод с древнегреческого под редакцией А. В. Махлаюка. Комментарии и статья А. В. Махлаюка. — СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. — 456 с. — (Fontes scripti antiqui). В издании публикуется первый перевод на русский язык LXIV–LXXX книг «Римской истории» Кассия Диона, в которых освещаются события 69–229 гг. н. э. – от гражданской войны после смерти...
Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail, 2015. — 430 p. Cette thèse, une édition traduite et commentée de deux livres de l'Histoire romaine (livres 57 et 58), s'inscrit dans un programme d'édition critique complète et moderne de cette œuvre. Dans ce diptyque faisant suite au cycle augustéen des livres 51 à 56, Dion Cassius retrace, avec le recul d'un sénateur romain de l'époque...