Granius Licinianus

Background

Granius Licinianus is believed to have lived in the second century A. D.

Career

Granius was the author of a brief epitome of Roman history based upon Livy, which he utilized as a means of displaying his antiquarian lore.

Accounts of omens, portents, prodigies and other remarkable things apparently took up a considerable portion of the work. Some fragments of the books relating to the years 163-178 B. C. are preserved in a British Museum MS. Editions. -C. A. Pertz (1857); seven Bonn students (1858); M. Flemisch (1904); see also J. N. Madvig, Kleine philologische Schriften (1875), and the list of articles in periodicals in Flemisch's edition (p. iv. ).

Achievements

• Granius Licinianus wrote a history in many books, some time later than Hadrian. His work was entirely lost until portions were discovered in a palimpsest. Unusually for a Latin text, the manuscript came from the Nitrian desert among the collection of Syriac texts brought back by Henry Tattam from St. Mary Deipara.

Works

• book

  • Grani Liciniani reliquiae (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)

References

• Latin Literature: A History
• Masters of Roman Prose From Cato to Apuleius: Interpretative Studies (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers, and Monographs)