Note sur les relations de trois historiens des IVe et Ve siècles : Sulpicius Alexander, Renatus Profutus Frigeridus et Olympiodore

In the first part of this note, the author compares his point of view on Alexander and Frigeridus with G. Zecchini's. Their opinions differ on the following questions: the identification, classification, and localization of the historians' fragments ; the copiousness of their works ; and the periods of time they deal with, and especially the question of whether Alexander continues Ammianus Marcellinus and Frigeridus Alexander - a hypothesis that Zecchini excludes whereas the author thinks it likely. The second part of the note deals with the similarities one can perceive between Zosimus 6,4,1-5,2 and a fragment of Frigeridus. The author tries to show that Olympiodorus, Zosimus' source, owes his information to Frigeridus, especially for this passage. There are however in Olympiodorus-Zosimus passages with a pagan bias, which cannot come from the Christian Renatus Frigeridus. One has therefore to admit that Olympiodorus combined, for the year 408 and thereafter, a factual source (Frigeridus ?) with a source giving him an ideological framework.