Fasti Romani
The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Justin II

Henry Fynes Clinton's two-volume tabular history of the Roman Empire, first published in 1845 and 1850.

Henry Fynes Clinton (Author)

9781108012478, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 31 October 2010

876 pages
29.7 x 21 x 3.2 cm, 1.47 kg

Henry Fynes Clinton (1781–1852) made an innovative contribution to classical scholarship with this history of the Roman Empire, published in two volumes in 1845 and 1850. Applying a scientific method of analysis to the study of ancient history, he organises the information chronologically in tables, demonstrating the connection between different spheres at various phases of development of the empire. Volume 1 lists the Roman Consuls and the events that took place under their mandate, including significant Greek and Roman literary and cultural achievements. Among Clinton's sources were chronicles, law codes, medals and coins, and classic literature, covering a period of over five hundred years. Beginning with the death of Augustus in 14 CE, this volume ends in 578 CE, a century after the conventional date of the empire's fall. An index to the tables gives the reader a chronological overview which is still of great value today.

Introduction
Tables
Indexes
Additions and corrections.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]