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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Notable work
- Breviarium
- Image
- Eutropius portrait, Plut. 65.35.jpg
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- date of death
- 0400-00-00
- floruit
- 0400-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- time period
- Roman Empire
- name in native language
- Eutropius
- writing language
- Latin
- P13311
- IU
- Commons category
- Eutropius (historian)
- P8168
- Cholmondeley Award
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Eutropius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Portrait of Eutropius as a monk from a 10th-century manuscript (Laurentian Library Plut. 65.35) Flavius Eutropius (fl. 363–387) was a Roman official and historian. His book Breviarium Historiae Romanae summarizes events from the founding of Rome in the 8th century BC down to the author's lifetime. Appreciated by later generations for its clear presentation and writing style, the Breviarium can be used as a supplement to more comprehensive Roman historical texts that have survived in fragmentary condition.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eutropius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.