{"id":1,"date":"2025-12-03T21:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blogtest\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:40:45","slug":"the-lost-history-of-sextus-aurelius-victor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/03\/the-lost-history-of-sextus-aurelius-victor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At some point in the later 4th&nbsp;century AD, perhaps around 380, the famous and irascible translator, Christian theologian, and general polymath, St Jerome, sat down to write a letter. Unsurprisingly, it was about books. His addressee was one Paul, a centenarian bibliophile who lived in Concordia near Aquileia, an important ancient city on the Adriatic. Two of the books Jerome asked for were what we might expect: the commentary on the Gospels of Fortunatian, sometime bishop of Aquileia, and the letters of the Christian schismatic Novatian. The third is rather more surprising \u2013 the&nbsp;<em>History&nbsp;<\/em>of Sextus Aurelius Victor&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/antigonejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/JeromePCvA-edited-1-1024x751.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-default has-small-font-size\"><em>St Jerome looking rather wearied by his scholarly labours: Saint&nbsp;Jerome&nbsp;in his study, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1530 (Walters Art&nbsp;Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the rest at&nbsp;<em>Antigone<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/antigonejournal.com\/2023\/09\/lost-history-aurelius-victor\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen &#8220;At some point in the later 4th&nbsp;century AD, perhaps around 380, the famous and irascible translator, Christian theologian, and general polymath, St Jerome, sat down to write a letter. Unsurprisingly, it was about books. His addressee was one Paul, a centenarian bibliophile who lived in Concordia near Aquileia, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}