Romana (Jordanes)
The Romana is a
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
References
- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Jornandes", Boston, (1867)
- James J. O'Donell (1982), "The Aims of Jordanes", Historia, 31: 223–240, archived from the original on April 30, 2006
- ISBN 978-87-7289-710-3
- Jordanes: Romana and Getica - introduction, translation and notes by Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof -Series: Translated texts for historians- Liverpool university press 2020