* Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos vi. 16. 1 – 2, 19. 4 – 18.

Orosius ( Historiae adversum paganos 7, 34 ) and Zosimus ( New History 4, 34, 3-5 ) affirm this, but a more reliable source, Ammianus Marcellinus ( Res gestae 27, 5, 10 ) tells us an entirely different story.

The idea for Orosius ’ s great work, Historiae Adversus Paganos, was born during this reencounter with Saint Augustine.

The Commonitorium and the Histories are a response, at least in their origins, to the direct influence that Saint Augustine exercised over Orosius. Although Paulus Orosius ’ s most important book was the Historiae Adversus Paganos, his other two surviving books must also be taken into account: Commonitorium and Liber Apologeticus.

Paulus Orosius ’ s masterpiece is Historiae Adversus Paganos, the only history book that he wrote, which allow us to gain an insight into the historiographical methodology of the Spanish priesthood.

Colophon from an Incunable | incunabulum of the Historiae Adversus Paganos by Paulus Orosius, one of the most copied books from the Medieval period. The assumed falling out of Paulus Orosius and Saint Augustine at the end of the former ’ s life does not seem to have had a negative effect on the distribution and impact of his Histories.

* Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos i. 4, ii. 2. 5, 6. 7

* Orosius, Historiae adversum Paganos, 7. 40

* Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos ii. 10. 1-3

* Orosius, Historiae adversum Paganos, 7. 40

* Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos II. 7

* Orosius, Historiae adversum Paganos, 7. 40

* Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos vi. 5. 3-5

* Orosius Historium adversum paganos VII. 34

Contemporary histories indicate that from an early age Orosius was loquacious and erudite, alluding to statements to this effect made by both Saint Augustine and Pope Gelasius I.

Orosius succeeded only in obtaining John's consent to send letters and deputies to Pope Innocent I of Rome ; and, after having waited long enough to learn the unfavourable decision of the Synod of Diospolis ( Lydda ) in December of the same year, he returned to North Africa,

The date of the book is not our main focus here, what is more important is Orosius ’ s objective in responding to Saint Augustine ’ s request by writing a book aimed at proving that Rome ’ s decadence – it should be remembered that Rome was sacked by Alaric I in 410 – had nothing at all to do with the fact that the Romans had relatively recently converted to Christianity.

The first twenty-one chapters, covering the period before the mission of Augustine, are compiled from earlier writers such as Orosius, Gildas, Prosper of Aquitaine, the letters of Pope Gregory I, and others, with the insertion of legends and traditions.

Denis Van Berchem, of the University of Geneva, proposed that Eucherius ' presentation of the legend of the Theban legion was a literary production, not based on a local tradition ; by isolating its hagiographic conventions from the anachronisms of local narrative elements, he sought to demonstrate that Eucherius derived his formulas from Lactantius and Orosius and that the decimation was an anachronism: the practice of decimation had not been practiced for at least a century ( see Ammianus Marcellinus for Julian's misinterpretation of decimation ) and that service by Christians in the legions before Emperor Constantine I was relatively rare.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

His interest in foreign countries is shown by the insertions which he made in his translation of Orosius.

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

Caesar himself mentions few place-names ; and although the battle is called after Pharsalos, four ancient writers – the author of the Bellum Alexandrinum ( 48. 1 ), Frontinus ( Strategemata 2. 3. 22 ), Eutropius ( 20 ), and Orosius ( 6. 15. 27 ) – place it specifically at Palaepharsalos.

Bede's monastery had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius among many others.

His introduction imitates the work of Orosius, and his title is an echo of Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica.

Orosius < u > Histories 1.

Orosius < u > Histories 1.

His travel accounts, as well as those of another trader, Ohthere, were included in Alfred the Great's translation of Orosius ' Histories.

According to Orosius, he is a native Briton of urban aristocracy.

He relied heavily on Orosius ' Historiarum Adversum Paganos ( 5th century AD ) and Eusebius of Caesarea's Chronicon ( early 5th century AD ) as did Orosius.

Gregory's education was the standard Latin one of Late Antiquity, focusing on Vergil's Aeneid and Martianus Capella's Liber de Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, but also other key texts such as Orosius ' Chronicles, which his Historia is a continuation of, and Sallust, all of which works he refers to in his own.

46 – 120 AD ) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius and Diodorus Siculus.

It was used systematically for the first time only about the year 400, by the Iberian historian Orosius.

12 ; Auctor ad Herennium i. 21 ; Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus, 73 ; Orosius v. 17 ; Cicero, Pro Balbo, 21, 48, Brutus, 62, De oratore, ii.

Another important writer was the Florentine judge Bono Giamboni, who translated Orosius's Historiae adversus paganos, Vegetius's Epitoma rei militaris, made a translation / adaptation of Cicero's De inventione mixed with the Rethorica ad Erennium, and a translation / adaptation of Innocent III's De miseria humane conditionis.

Historiae adversus paganos, I. 15. 7-9.

His Progymnasma adversus literal et literates deserves mention at least among the curiosities of literature ; and among his other works to which reference is still occasionally made are Historiae poetarum Graecorum ac Latinorum ; De poetis suorum temporum ; and De sepultura ac vario sepeliendi ritu.

* Orosius's Historiae adversum paganos, " Histories ," ( 417 )

Volumen I: A-G. Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006 ( Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 43 / 1 ), Pp.

It presents itself as a compilation of works by six different authors ( collectively known as the Scriptores Historiae Augustae ), written in the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine I, but the true authorship of the work, its actual date, and its purpose, have long been matters for controversy.

I. Bekker, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae ( Bonn 1843 ) and Historiae Demonstrationes, 2 vols., ed.

* L139 ) Scriptores Historiae Augustae: Volume I. Hadrian.

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