Julius Obsequens
Julius Obsequens was a Roman writer active in the 4th or early 5th centuries AD, during late antiquity. His sole known work is the Prodigiorum liber (Book of Prodigies), a tabulation of the wonders and portents (prodigia) that had occurred in the Roman Republic and early Principate in the years 24912 BC. The material for the Prodigiorum liber was largely excerpted from the 1st century AD Ab Urbe Condita Libri of the Augustan historian Livy, which chronicled the history of the Roman state from its origin to the beginning of the imperial period, though Julius used it selectively and sometimes added interpretations of the omens and incidents he included. There is a common view that Julius only knew Livy's text wholly or in part from an epitome, but there is scant evidence of this.
Also recorded as Iulius Obsequens
Julius Obsequens
- Born
- 400 · Rome.
- Died
- 301
- Nationality
- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- historian · writer · poet
- Known for
- On Prodigies
- Languages
- Latin
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Born at Rome in 400, died in 301.
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301
Julius Obsequens died.
400
Julius Obsequens born at Rome.
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- 1.N. Terzaghi, Lineamenti di storia della letteratura latina, Torino, Paravia, 1945, pp. 235 ss.
- 2.cita CeccarelliLiberati .
- 3.Si veda l'edizione critica, con le Periochae e i frammenti liviani, a cura di O. Rossbach, Leipzig, Teubner, 1910.
- 4.Citato da Umberto Eco in Storia della bruttezza, Bompiani, p. 109, ISBN 978-88-452-7389-6.
- 5.Prodigioru.
- 6.F. Sartori, Nascite umane mostruose nel Prodigiorum liber di Giulio Ossequente, in «ASIGO», LXLX (1993), pp. 17-23.
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