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<div class="entry-content"> <div class="view-full work-view-full" data-work-id="464"><div class="table-view"><div class="field field-title"><div class="field-label">Title(s): </div><div class="field-items"><ul class="flatlist"><li><div>History</div></li></ul></div></div><div class="field field-authors"><div class="field-label">Author: </div><div class="field-items"><ul class="flatlist"><li><a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/database/authors/168" ><span class="english">Faustus of Byzantium</span></a></li></ul></div></div><div class="field field-period"><div class="field-label">Period covered: </div><div class="field-items">317-387?</div></div><div class="field field-title"><div class="field-label">Language: </div><div class="field-items">Greek</div></div><div class="field field-state-of-preservation"><div class="field-label">State of Preservation: </div><div class="field-items">Fragmentary</div></div><div class="field field-genre"><div class="field-label">Genre: </div><div class="field-items"><ul class="taglist"><li>Secular history (general)</li></ul></div></div><div class="field field-remark"><div class="field-label">Remarks: </div><div class="field-items"><div>Lazar Parpec'i names Faustus of Byzantium as a fourth- or fifth-century historian. The reference is usually understood as a misinterpretation of Buzandaran Patmutiwn (Anonymous, Epic histories), but Traina 2001 argues for possible historicity.</div> <div>Procopius (Wars 1.5.9-40 and Buildings 3.1.6) mentions an anonymous Armenian source which older scholarship identified with Faustus, a view that led to the idea that Faustus might have translated the Epic histories or have written them originally in Greek (cf. Garsoian 1989). Traina 1999 demonstrates that Procopius’ account cannot derive from a Greek version of the Epic histories. So all we know about Faustus comes from Lazar.</div></div></div><div class="field field-authors"><div class="field-label">Edition - Translation: </div><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-authors"><div class="field-label">Fragments: </div><div class="field-items"><ul class="flatlist"><li>Łazar Parpec‘i, History pr. 1-3</li><li>Anonymous, Epic histories 3, scholion</li></ul></div></div><div class="field field-used-by"><div class="field-label">Users: </div><div class="field-items"><ul class="flatlist"><li><a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/database/authors/520" ><span class="english">Łazar P‘arpec‘i</span></a></li><li><a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/database/authors/868" ><span class="english">Stephen of Taron</span></a></li></ul></div></div><div class="field field-used-by"><div class="field-label">Sources: </div><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-authors"><div class="field-label">Bibliography: </div><div class="field-items"><ul class="flatlist"><li>N. Garsoian (1989) The Epic histories attributed to P'awstos Buzand (Buzandaran patmut'iwnk'). Cambridge (MA).</li><li>D. Kouymjian (1985) Łazar P῾arpets῾i, History of the Armenians and the Letter to Vahan Mamikonean: A photographic reproduction of the 1904 Tiflis edition with a new introduction and critical bibliography. Delmar (NY).</li><li>R.W. Thomson (1991) The history of Łazar P'arpec'i. Atlanta.</li><li>G. Traina (2001) 'Faustus "of Byzantium", Procopius, and the Armenian history (Jacoby, FGrHist 679.3-4)'. In: Novum millennium: Studies on Byzantine history and culture dedicated to Paul Speck, ed. C. Sode - S. Takacs. Aldershot: 405-413.</li></ul></div></div></div></div> </div> </article>  </section> </div> </div> <footer class="page-footer fluid-container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12"> <div class="bg-primary padding-20"> <div class="mbottom-small border-bottom"> <div class="row flexbox"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-ms-6 col-md-3 pbottom-small"> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-ms-6 col-md-3 pbottom-small"> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-ms-6 col-md-3 pbottom-small"> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-ms-6 col-md-3 pbottom-small"> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 pbottom-small branding-container"> <h2> <a href="https://www.ugent.be/en"><img class="svg" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/images/logo_lw_en.svg" alt="facultylogo"></a> </h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div id="socialbanner" class="container-share col-xs-12 col-sm-4"> <ul class="list-inline list-unstyled social"></ul> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-8"> <ul class="list-inline list-unstyled pull-right"> <li><a href = "https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-login.php">Log in</a></li> <li>2023 Ghent University</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </footer> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/modernizr-custom.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/jquery-migrate.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/moment.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/bootstrap.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/locale/nl.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/bootstrap-select.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/bootstrap-datetimepicker.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/smooth-scroll.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/tocbot.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/main.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-content/themes/ugent2016/js/main.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://apps.flw.ugent.be/chta/media/js/default.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js'></script> </body> </html>

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