Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus

Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus
Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus
Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus
OccupationHistorian
LanguageLatin
CitizenshipRoman Empire
Period1st century BC
GenresHistory
SubjectHellenistic period
Literary movementSilver age of Latin literature
Notable workHistoriae Philippicae et Totius Mundi Origines et Terrae Situs

Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus[n 1] (fl. 1st century BC), also anglicized as Pompey Trogue,[n 2] was a Gallo-Roman historian from the Celtic Vocontii tribe in Narbonese Gaul who lived during the reign of the emperor Augustus. He was nearly contemporary with Livy.

Life

Pompeius Trogus's grandfather served under Pompey in his war against Sertorius. Owing to Pompey's influence, he was able to obtain Roman citizenship and his family adopted their patron's praenomen and nomen Gnaeus Pompeius. Trogus's father served under Julius Caesar as his secretary and interpreter. Trogus himself seems to have been a polymath.[1]

Works

Following Aristotle and Theophrastus, Pompeius Trogus wrote books on the natural history of animals and plants.[1]

His principal work, however, was his 44-volume Philippic Histories and the Origin of the Whole World and the Places of the Earth (Historiae Philippicae et Totius Mundi Origines et Terrae Situs), now lost, which, according to its surviving epitome, had as its principal theme the Macedonian Empire founded by Philip II but functioned as a general history of all of the parts of the world which fell under the control of Alexander the Great and his successors, with extensive ethnographical and geographical digressions. Trogus began with Ninus, legendary founder of Nineveh, and ended at about the same point as Livy (AD 9). The development of the East from the Assyrians to the Parthians is given extensive coverage while early Roman history and the history of the Iberian Peninsula is briefly glossed in the last two books. The Philippic Histories is indebted to earlier Greek historians such as Theopompus (whose own Philippica may have suggested Trogus's title), Ephorus, Timaeus, and Polybius. On the grounds that such a work was beyond the ability of a Gallo-Roman, it has generally been assumed that Pompeius Trogus did not gather his material directly from these Greek sources but from an existing compilation or translation by a Greek such as the Universal History compiled by Timagenes of Alexandria.[2]

Style

Pompeius Trogus's idea of history was more exacting than that of Sallust and Livy, whom he criticized for their habit of putting elaborate speeches into the mouths of the characters of whom they wrote.[3]

On the Jews

Pompeius Trogus discusses the Jews in the context of the history of the Seleucid Empire. Along with the passages in Tacitus, the summary of Pompeius Trogus includes the most extensive description of the Jews in classical Latin literature.[4] His main overview of the Jews is divided into 3 parts: 1. The Antiquities of the Jews - includes a combination of 3 different traditions: Damascus tradition, Biblical tradition and the Egyptian-Greek tradition hostile to the Exodus 2. A brief geographical description of the land of Judea. 3. A history of the Jews beginning with the Persian period.

Trogus used Greek sources for his composition. It is possible that the writing of the Jews he used the writings of Timagenes and perhaps also by Posidonius.[5]

Legacy

The original text of the Philippic Histories has been lost and is preserved only in excerpts by other authors (including Vopiscus, Jerome, and Augustine) and in a loose epitome by the later historian Justin.[6] Justin aimed only to preserve the parts he felt most important or interesting about Pompeius Trogus's work, with the last recorded event being the recovery of Roman standards from the Parthians in 20 BC. In the manuscripts of Justin's works, however, a separate series of summaries (prologi) of the original work have been preserved. Even in their present mutilated state the works are often an important authority for the ancient history of the East.[3]

Pompeius Trogus's works on animals and plants were extensively quoted in the works of Pliny the Elder.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Abbreviated Cn. Pompeius Trogus, the name also appears as "Cnaeus Pompeius Trogus" or, mistakenly, "Trogus Pompeius".
  2. ^ Less often, the mistaken "Trogue Pompey"

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 299.
  2. ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 299–300.
  3. ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 300.
  4. ^ Menachem Stern, Studies in the history of Israel during the Second Temple period, p. 469.
  5. ^ Menahem Stern, Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, Vol. I, XLVII. Pompeius Trogus, pp. 332-333
  6. ^ Winterbottom (2006).

Bibliography

  • "Pompeius Trogus". Britannica. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trogus, Gnaeus Pompeius" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 299–300.
  • Winterbottom, Michael (Winter 2006), "Review: Justin and Pompeius Trogus: A Study of the Language of Justin's Epitome of Trogus by J. C. Yardley", International Review of the Classical Tradition, vol. 12, Springer, pp. 463–465, JSTOR 30222069.

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