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The Fragments of the Roman Historians

In vol. 1, Cornell is the sole author of the following entries in the general introduction on sources of fragments: Arnobius, Censorinus, Festus, Frontinus, the Historia Augusta, Lydus, Plutarch, Quintilian, Solinus, Suetonius, Varro; and joint author of entries on Asconius, Cicero, Macrobius, the Origo Gentis Romanae, Pliny the Elder and Strabo. Also joint author of the general introduction and appendices. As for the fragmentary historians themselves, Cornell is the sole author of entries on Cato, Fannius, Labienus, and Apuleius, and joint author of those on Fabius Pictor, Cincius Alimentus, Munatius Rufus, Oppius, Balbus, Hyginus, Alfius, Claudius, Vibius Maximus, Trajan, Marius Maximus, Asinius Quadratus, and Rubellius Blandus. The same for these historians in vols. 2 and 3. Cornell also compiled (in vol. 3) the chronological table of events, the indices locorum, the general index and the concordances. Cornell’s personal contribution to the whole amounts to some 250,000 words, out of a total of something a little over 1m. Cornell also acted as general editor of the whole project, responsible for the structure and layout, and for choice of contributors and the assignment of their sections; and editing of the whole output to ensure consistency of presentation, focus and approach.

This is a major work of original scholarship containing the results of more than fifteen years' sustained and hitherto unpublished research. The three volumes amount altogether to over 2650 pages (over one million words); the whole project was coordinated and edited by TJC, who also directly contributed over 195,000 words as sole author and over 135,000 as joint author.