Books in the Routledge Classical Translations series

This book examines short selections of fictional letters and excerpts from histories, epics and novels from the second and third centuries CE. An entertaining central study text for students of Greek epistolography.

While an exile from Constantinople, the 12th-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. This title presents the key section of the Epitome central to the study of late Roman and Byzantine historiography.