The Breviarum Ab Urbe Condita of Eutropius: The Right Honourable Secretary of State for General Petitions : Dedicated to Lord Valens, Gothicus Maximus & Perpetual Emperor

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Liverpool University Press, 1993 - 186 頁
The book consists of a lengthy introduction to Eutropius, his times and the reasons for the book's composition. His attitude, style, sources, mode of composition and chronology are all discussed, as is his continuing popularity through the centuries. A translation of the "Breviarium" follows and this is accompanied by a historical and historiographical commentary.

關於作者 (1993)

H. W. Bird is Professor of Classics at the University of Windsor, Ontario (Universtiy Research Professor, 1992-93). Having served in the Royal Navy, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, McMaster University and the University of Toronto. He has since taught at a number of universities in England, Finland and Canada. H. W. Bird is the author of Sextus Aurelius Victor: A Historiographical (Liverpool, Francis Cairns).

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