Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus (Translated Texts for Historians, 17) (Volume 17)

Victor, Aurelius

ISBN 10: 0853232180 / ISBN 13: 9780853232186

Published by Liverpool University Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus (Translated Texts for Historians, 17) (Volume 17)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853232180
• ISBN 13: 9780853232186
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This is the first full-scale translation and commentary in English of Aurelius Victor’s De Caesaribus, which provides a brief survey of the emperors of Rome from Octavian Augustus in 30 BC to Constantius II in AD 360.

About the Author

H. W. Bird is Professor of Classics at the University of Windsor, Ontario (Universtiy Research Professor, 1992-93). Having served in the Royal Navy, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, McMaster University and the University of Toronto. He has since taught at a number of universities in England, Finland and Canada. H. W. Bird is the author of Sextus Aurelius Victor: A Historiographical (Liverpool, Francis Cairns) and he translated and commentated on Eutropius: Breviarium (Translated Texts for Historians 14).