The Lost History of Peter the Patrician

The Lost History of Peter the Patrician is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter’s History , including additional fragments which are now more often considered the work of the Roman historian Cassius Dio's so-called Anonymous Continuer. Banchich’s annotation helps clarify the relationship of Peter's work to that of Cassius Dio. Focusing on the historical and historiographical rather than philological, he provides a strong framework for the understanding of this increa