Talk:Dexippus

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Why considered Latin author? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Connection (talk • contribs) 23:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

The idea that Dexippus led the defense of Athens from the Heruli is called into question by a recently published paper (Justin Stover (2020), "New Light on the Historia Augusta", Journal of Roman Studies 110, pp. 167-198, paywalled version here (edit: unpaywalled version here, archived here)), which claims to have found by examining the manuscript traditions of the Historia Augusta that the passage therein mentioning Dexippus' military leadership, which is the main primary-source evidence for this idea, is in fact a garbled version of a passage that originally stated only that Dexippus had written about the Heruli's invasion. (Indeed, the previously conventional reading of that passage was, as Stover notes, so incongruous with the lack of corroboration on, e.g., Dexippus' funeral inscription that several previous editors had also suggested that it was the result of a scribal error.) However, this finding is still at the point of textual criticism of an ancient source; should the article be changed to include it now, or should we wait for the new discovery to be accepted or rejected by scholars generally? - 2601:80:4580:E0E0:7463:4BB9:87FE:89DE (talk) 03:18, 16 November 2020 (UTC); edited to add open-access link by 2601:80:4580:E0E0:7463:4BB9:87FE:89DE (talk) 00:24, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Useful source no open access
Perhaps useful. Also available on other sites including Academia. Empire in Crisis: Gothic Invasions and Roman Historiography. --Andrew Lancaster (talk) 12:47, 6 April 2021 (UTC)