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REVIEW of Kelly C., Flower R. and Williams M.S. (eds.) Unclassical Traditions. Volume I: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity. Cambridge.
The omnimoda historia of Nummius Aemilianus Dexter : a Latin Translation of Eusebius' Chronography?
This article discusses two problems of interpretation in the entry on Dexter in Jerome’s De viris illustribus (Hier. vir. ill.). In particular, it offers the first detailed discussion of the information we possess on Dexter’s omnimoda historia, and suggests that it may have been a Latin translation and/or adaptation of the first part of the chronicle of Eusebius, the so-called chronography
REVIEW of Williams M. (2008) Authorised Lives in Early Christian Biography: Between Eusebius and Augustine. Cambridge – New York.
REVIEW of Demoen K. and Praet,D. (eds.) (2008) Theios Sophistes: Essays on Flavius Philostratus' Vita Apollonii (Mnemosyne Supplement 305). Leiden.
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