Author : Senator Cassiodorus,Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus,Cassiodorus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853234364
The Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator ... by Senator Cassiodorus,Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus,Cassiodorus Pdf
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. " ... excellent and invaluable ..."—Classical Review