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Justin and Pompeius Trogus
2003,2014
Overview
Around 200AD, Marcus Junianus Justinus produced an abridged or 'epitomized' version of the Philippic Histories of the Augustan historian Pompeius Trogus. In doing so, he omitted all he did not find either intrinsically interesting or of use for historical examples. Over the centuries that followed, the abridgement eclipsed the original work in popularity, to the extent that Trogus' original work vanished and only Justin's version survived.
In this investigation of the language of theEpitome, the first in almost a century, J.C. Yardley examines the work to establish how much of the text belongs to Trogus, and how much to Justin. His study compares words and expressions used in theEpitomewith the usage of other Roman authors, and establishes areas where diction is similar to Augustan-era Latin and less in use in Justin's time. Yardley's extensive analysis reveals that there is more of Justin in the work than is often supposed, which may have implications for the historical credibility of the document. Yardley also demonstrates how much Trogus was influenced by his contemporary Livy as well as other Roman authors such as Sallust and Caesar, and how theEpitomereveals the influence of Roman poetry, especially the work of Virgil.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press,University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
Subject
/ Greece
/ Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Historiography
/ HISTORY
/ Justinus, Marcus Junianus -- Language
/ Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Historiae Philippicae
/ Language
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
/ Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C
/ Rome
ISBN
9780802087669, 0802087663, 9781442676473, 1442676477
