[darkagebritain] Re: Aetius' fourth consulship
- From: "Kevin Bowman" <kbowman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <darkagebritain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:15:49 -0400
According to Guy Halsall:
http://books.google.com/books?id=S7ULzYGIj8oC&pg=PA520&lpg=PA520&dq=Aeti
us+fourth+consulship&source=bl&ots=qLZxk_b7Vs&sig=-1VeY0LX2yJ64gZyKy1mBg
kfgqQ&hl=en&ei=ZSbaSZHvFJmqMrv-qYEP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum
=1
identification of the fourth consulship of Aetius in 453 comes from the
Consularia Constantinopolitana of Hydatius and the Fastii Vindobonenses
Posteriori of 570 (of which I know nothing), but the modern scholarly
consensus is that this was based on confusion.
I have no knowledge that I could offer to refute the reported consensus
opinion.
I will only add that, if there was no fourth consulship for Aetius, it
is all the more likely that Gildas could have referred to him as thrice
consul anachronistically.
Kevin A. Bowman
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