Cassiodorus
`Variae'
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
254 pages
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8.3 x 5.8
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© 1992
Cassiodorus (c.485–585), Roman senator and consul, served in various high offices from c.505 to c.538, under the kings of the Ostrogoths, who had inherited the imperial administration of Italy. For long periods the Goths’ chief publicist, he compiled the state papers he had drafted, as their regime crumbled under Byzantine attack. This selection is the first translation to appear since 1886.
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
A. ITALY, A.D. 395-550
B. THE VARIAE
1. The Compilation
2. The Character of the Variae
3. The Variae as Separate Documents
4. The Variae as a Historical Source:
a Caution
5. The Variae: Text and Editions;
Selectino, Dating and Translation
C. THE HOUSE OF THE CASSIODORI (ORDO GENERIS
CASSIODORORUM)
D. CASSIODORUS AND HIS KINDRED IN THE VARIAE
1. The Family
2. Cassiodorus as Diplomatic Draftsman
3. Cassiodorus as Quaestor
4. Cassiodorus as Consul and Senator
5. Cassiodorus as Master of the Offices
6. Cassiodorus as Praetorian Prefect
TRANSLATED VARIAE WITH NOTES
GLOASSARY of ALLUSIONS AND OFFICIAL TERMS
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEXES
MAPS
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