Lost History of Peter the Patrician

<p><em>The Lost</em> History<i> of Peter the Patrician</i> is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter’s <i>History</i> 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 increasingly important source for the third and fourth centuries A.D. </p><p></p><p>With an introduction on Peter himself - a distinguished administrator and diplomat at the court of Justinian – assessing his literary output the relationship of the fragments of Peter's <i>History</i> to the fragments of the Anonymous Continuer and the contentious issue of the place of this evidence within the framework of late antique historiography <i>The Lost </i>History<i> of Peter the Patrician</i> will be an invaluable resource for those interested in the history of the Roman world in general and of the third and fourth centuries A.D. in particular<i>.</i></p>