Amyntianus

Amyntianus (Greek Αμυντιανός ) was a rhetorician and ancient Greek-speaking historian of the 2nd or 3rd century AD However, its life data are uncertain. He is known especially for a note in Photius, who reported this from a biography of Alexander the Great, which was written by dedicated Amyntianus and the " Roman Emperor Mark".

Work

Photios characterizes the style of Amyntianus as inconsistent and inspirationslos as well as the entire work as clear, but crucial details negligible. It is now generally believed that he criticized Alexander 's biography is to be regarded as identical with that which is mentioned in the scholia on Virgil's Georgics.

Photius describes the mentioned site is also other works of the same Amyntianus:

• Parallel biographies: of Dionysius of Syracuse and Domitian (2 books ), and of Philip II Augustus and
• A biographical work about Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great. The author of this document is equated by some researchers with that Amyntianus who wrote, according to the scholia to Pindar a treatise on elephants.

Temporal Allocation

As equate by previous researchers, particularly by Théodore Reinach, the thesis was represented, which is " Roman Emperor Mark" of Photius site with Caracalla, recent research is due to some circumstantial rather from Marcus Aurelius: are In the reign of the latter several senators called Amyntianus known, the proximity to the time of Plutarch and Domitian and the recovery, have taken the Alexander biographies in the wake of the work of Arrian and the Orient expedition of Lucius Verus, speak for an assignment to Marcus Aurelius. However, talk is also some evidence for the senior thesis: The Historia Augusta and Cassius Dio report from the Alexander passion of Caracalla, who had this revered as a hero - ideal.

Fragmentum Sabbaiticum

The philologist Athanasios Papadopoulos - Kerameus discovered in the library of the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1891 an important fragment of a biography of Alexander (about a third of the original text ): the so-called Fragmentum Sabbaiticum. In the first French translation of this text Theodore Reinach took the stylistically founded point of view, to identify the Alexander history of Fragmentum Sabbaiticum with the Alexander history of Amyntianus, and took as mentioned that Amyntianus Alexander history as well as his, so that means the Fragmentum Sabbaiticum, the time Emperor Caracalla had been covered. This view is justified by recent research as little and ultimately viewed as speculation.