1585 Justin & Trogus Pompeius Macedonia ROME Roman Cults Rituals + Fenestellae

1585 Justin & Trogus Pompeius Macedonia ROME Roman Cults Rituals + Fenestellae

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This work is a collection of the most important and interesting writings on the rise and history of the Macedonian empire including aspects of ancient Rome.

 

Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (fl. 1st century bc), also anglicized as Pompey Trogue, was a Gallo-Roman historian from the Celtic Vocontii tribe in Narbonese Gaul who lived during the reign of the emperor Augustus. He was nearly contemporary with Livy.

 

Justino Marco Junianus (fl. 3^rd century ad) was a Roman historian.

 

Main author: Trogus Pompeius ; Marco Juniano Justino

 

Title: Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri XXXXIIII : His accessit ex Sexto Aurelio Victore De vita [et] moribus Romanorum Imperatorum epitome …

 

Published: Parisiis: apud Hieronymum de Marnef, 1585.

 

Language: Latin

 

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Author:      Andreas Floccus; Iulius Pomponius Laetus

 

1. Fenestellae de magistratibus, sacerdotiisque Romanorum libellus : iam primum nitori suo restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Romanorum.

 

Publisher:  Lugduni : Cloquemin, 1581.

 

 

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Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus[n 1] (fl. 1st century bc), also anglicized as Pompey Trogue,[n 2] was a Gallo-Roman historian from the Celtic Vocontii tribe in Narbonese Gaul who lived during the reign of the emperor Augustus. He was nearly contemporary with Livy.

Contents  [hide]

1              Life

2              Works

3              Style

4              Legacy

5              Notes

6              References

6.1          Citations

6.2          Bibliography

7              External links

Life[edit]

Pompeius Trogus’s grandfather served under Pompey in his war against Sertorius. Owing to Pompey’s influence, he was able to obtain Roman citizenship and his family adopted their patron’s last name. Pompeius Trogus’s father served under Julius Caesar as his secretary and interpreter. Pompeius Trogus himself seems to have been a polymath.

Works[edit]

Following Aristotle and Theophrastus, Pompeius Trogus wrote books on the natural history of animals and plants.

His principal work, however, was his 44-volume Philippic Histories and the Origin of the Whole World and the Places of the Earth (Historiae Philippicae et Totius Mundi Origines et Terrae Situs) which had as its principal theme the Macedonian Empire founded by Philip II but functioned as a general history of all of the parts of the world which fell under the control of Alexander the Great and his successors, with extensive ethnographical and geographical digressions. Trogus began with Ninus, legendary founder of Nineveh, and ended at about the same point as Livy (ad 9). The development of the East from the Assyrians to the Parthians is given extensive coverage while early Roman history and the history of Spain is briefly glossed in the last two books. The Philippic Histories is indebted to earlier Greek historians such as Theopompus (whose own Philippica may have suggested Trogus’s title), Ephorus, Timaeus, and Polybius. On the grounds that such a work was beyond the powers of Gallo-Roman, it has generally been assumed that Pompeius Trogus did not gather his material directly from these Greek sources but from an existing compilation or translation by a Greek such as the Universal History compiled by Timagenes of Alexandria.

Style[edit]

Pompeius Trogus’s idea of history was more exacting than that of Sallust and Livy, whom he criticized for their habit of putting elaborate speeches into the mouths of the characters of whom they wrote.

Legacy[edit]

The original text of the Philippic Histories has been lost and is preserved only in excerpts by other authors (including Vopiscus, Jerome, and Augustine) and in a loose epitome by the later historian Justin.[1] Justin aimed only to preserve the parts he felt most important or interesting about Pompeius Trogus’s work, with the last recorded event being the recovery of Roman standards from the Parthians in 20 bc. In the manuscripts of Justin’s works, however, a separate series of summaries (prologi) of the original work have been preserved. Even in their present mutilated state the works are often an important authority for the ancient history of the East.

Pompeius Trogus’s works on animals and plants were extensively quoted in the works of Pliny the Elder.

Notes[edit]

Jump up ^ Per Roman naming conventions, this name was abbreviated Cn. Pompeius Trogus, leading to the occasional mistaken appearance of “Cnaeus Pompeius Trogus”.

Jump up ^ Less often, the mistaken “Trogue Pompey”