Romana (Jordanes)

Romana (Jordanes)

The "Romana" is a Latin book written by Jordanes in the 6th century, being a short compendium of the most remarkable events from the creation down to the victory obtained by Narses, in AD 552, over king Teia. The work has been published under many different titles: "De Regnorum ac Temporum Successione", "Liber de origine mundi et actibus Romanorum ceterarumque gentium" or "De gestis Romanorum".

It is an epitome of epitomes that was begun before, but published after, the "Getica", covering the history of the world from the Creation, mainly based on Jerome, with material from Florus, and for the last part from Marcellinus Comes, the continuator of Jerome; it is of some value for the century 450–550, when Jordanes is dealing with recent history, and also for some accounts of several barbarous nations of the north, and the countries which they inhabited. It was written in 551 or 552 at Constantinople for a man addressed as "nobilissime frater Vigilii", unlikely to be Pope Vigilius.

Its "Editio princeps", with the "Getica" and Paul the Deacon, was printed in Augsburg by Konrad Peutinger in 1515. The earliest translations are a French translation by Drouet de Maupertuy, and one in Swedish by J. T. Peringskiold in 1719. The classical edition remains that by Theodor Mommsen in 1882, published with the "Getica" in the "Monumenta Germaniae Historica". It was Mommsen who first gave Jordanes' works the names by which they are mostly known, "Romana" and "Getica".

References

*Smith, William (editor); "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology", [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1716.html "Jornandes"] , Boston, (1867)
*citation|author=James J. O'Donell |url=http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/jordanes.html |title=The Aims of Jordanes | year=1982 |journal=Historia |volume=31 |pages=p. 223-240
*citation |author=Arne Søby Christensen|title= [http://www.mtp.hum.ku.dk/details.asp?eln=200114 Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths. Studies in a Migration Myth] |year=2002|id=ISBN 978-87-7289-710-3

External links

* [http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/Goths/Romana.htm Jordanes' "Romana" (excerpts)]


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