Grani Licinian or simply Licinian ( Latin Granius Licinianus ) is an ancient Roman historian who lived no earlier than the 2nd century A.D. e. His only work was written in Latin and preserved in small fragments.
| Granius Licinian | |
|---|---|
| lat Granius licinianus | |
| Date of Birth | II c. |
| Date of death | II c. |
| A country | |
| Scientific field | Annalists |
Biography
The years of life of the historian are unknown; according to indirect evidence, his literary work is dated either by the reign of Hadrian , or by the end of the 2nd century [1] , and sometimes by the 3rd and even 4th centuries [2] . His name is also not known for certain: in fragments the author is referred to as “Licinian”; as a rule, he is identified with Granius Licinian, whom Servius and Macrobius mention [2] .
In total, the work of Grania consisted of 36 books. Probably, the facts for his work Licinian drew from “ History from the founding of the City ” by Titus Livius . Preference in the selection of material was given not to major events in political history, but to entertaining phenomena, miracles, and instructive examples [2] .
Fragments of the work of Licinian were discovered in 1853 in the palimpsest (one of the rare examples of “double palimpsest”), which entered the British Museum from the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church in Wadi Natrun . The work of the historian was copied on parchment supposedly in the 5th century; subsequently (approximately in the VI century), the historical composition was cleared off, and a treatise of a certain grammar in Latin was recorded on top; finally, in the 9th-10th centuries the text was again cleared to record the translation of the homilies of John Chrysostom into the Syriac language . In total, fragments of Licinian were found on 12 sheets, and they describe the events of 165, 105, 87 and 78 BC. e [2] .
Notes
- ↑ The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Volume 2: Latin Literature. Ed. by EJ Kenney, WV Clausen. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.- P. 735.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 History of Roman literature. - Ed. S.I. Sobolevsky, M.E. Grabar-Passek, F.A. Petrovsky. - T. 2. - M .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1962. - S. 354.