Priscus ofPanium (Mid‐Fifth Centuryce)

Abstract

Priscus of Panium was a lawyer, rhetorician, and historian in the mid‐fifth century ce , who participated on a number of imperial embassies from Constantinople, the most memorable of which was to Attila the Hun in 449. Priscus's detailed account of this embassy provides fascinating insights into the conduct of diplomacy in this period, as well as into the character and rule of one of the late Roman Empire's most feared antagonists.