An Attempt at a New Typology of the Lost Latin Historiography of the Late Empire

Abstract

The present paper proposes a new classification of the lost Latin historiography of the third to fifth centuries. Its chief objective is to take into account the entirety of the evidence for the lost historical writing in Latin in this period, including the material that has to date that has been marginalised or has escaped scholarly atten- tion altogether. Moreover, the new classification yields a significant amount of new information on late ancient Latin historiography.