Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor

Justin Stover is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin at the University of Edinburgh. George Woudhuysen is an Assistant Professor in Roman History at the University of Nottingham.

This is a brilliant book and an extraordinary achievement. It is the sort of thing for which the phrase paradigm-shift should be reserved. It’s a long book, and a technical one, but exceptionally well designed and thus easy to follow. The authors have thrown a grenade into their niche and none of its residents, living or dead, come out unwounded.

• PART ONE. THE LOST HISTORIA1. The Historian Victor2. The Works Attributed to Victor3. The Genre of Epitome4. The Nature of Victor’s History5. Victor’s ReadersConclusion to Part 1. Two Editions of Victor’s HistoriaPART TWO. LATE ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY RECONSIDERED6. Enmann and the Kaisergeschichte7. Ausonius and Marius Maximus8. The Historia Augusta9. Ammianus Marcellinus and Nicomachus Flavianus10. Greeks and LatinsConclusion: Victor the HistorianAppendix. The Text of VictorList of Works CitedMaps of Victor’s WorldIndex of Manuscripts CitedIndex of SourcesGeneral Index