Cassiodorus. Variae

Translated with introduction and notes by S. J. B. Barnish. – Liverpool - Glasgow: Liverpool University Press; Bell and Bain Ltd, 2006. – 259 p. – (Translated Texts for Historians. Vol. 12).Cassiodorus (c. 485–585), Roman senator and consul, served in various high offices from c. 505 to c. 538, under the kings of the Ostrogoths, who had inherited the imperial administration of Italy. For long periods the Goths’ chief publicist, he compiled the state papers he had drafted, as their regime crumbled under Byzantine attack.Acknowledgements
References and AbbreviationsItaly, A.D. 395–550
The Variae
The Compilation
The Character of the Variae
The Variae as Separate Documents
The Variae as a Historical Source: a Caution
The Variae: Text and Editions; Selection, Dating and Translation
The House of the Cassiodori (Ordo Generis Cassiodororum)
Cassidorus and His Kindred in the Variae
The Family
Cassiodorus as Diplomatic Draftsman
Cassiodorus as Quaestor
Cassiodorus as Consul and Senator
Cassiodorus as Master of the Offices
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