late antique historiographical work

C8598
concept

A late antique historiographical work is a narrative or analytical text composed between roughly the third and eighth centuries CE that interprets past events, often blending classical historical methods with emerging religious, political, and cultural perspectives of the period.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
late antique text 8
ancient historical text 2
Byzantine historiography 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: late antique historiographical work
Generated description
A late antique historiographical work is a narrative or analytical text composed between roughly the third and eighth centuries CE that interprets past events, often blending classical historical methods with emerging religious, political, and cultural perspectives of the period.

Instances (16)

Instance Via concept surface
Jerusalem Chronicle ancient historical text
History of the Wars Byzantine historiography
Chronicle of Hydatius late antique chronicle
Vita Constantini late antique biographical work
Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History late antique text
De institutione astronomica late antique text
Life of St Martin late antique Latin prose work
De Mortibus Persecutorum late antique historical narrative
Commentary on Plato's Timaeus late antique text
Life of Proclus late antique text
Commentary on Plato's Parmenides late antique text
Life of Constantine late antique text
Confessio late antique text
Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers doxographical work
The Life of Flavius Josephus ancient historical text
Pachomian Rule late antique text