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as marking the end of Roman historiography (with the exception of a sixth-century excerpt preserved in

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); history after, he said, "went over to the Christians and the Greeks". The first volume appeared in Leipzig in 1870, with a second edition (revised by Peter himself) appearing in Leipzig in 1914 (and reprinted Stuttgart, 1967); the second volume appeared in Leipzig in 1906. In 1993, a reprinted edition with additional bibliography appeared. In the middle of the twentieth century there were repeated calls (including by

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, editor of a similar collection of Greek fragments, ''

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'') for an updated, revised edition of the fragments, aided by a sea change in the field of historiography and a critique of Peter's outdated perspective. The collection was supplanted by Martine Chassignet's '' L'Annalistique romaine'', the third and final volume of which was published in 2004. Other editors who have taken up the project of publishing the important fragments of Roman literary tradition include Courtney (''Fragmentary Latin Poets'') and Malcovati (''Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta''). Hermann Peter was also an editor of the ''

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'' and an editor of and expert on the '' Origo gentis romanae''. His monograph on Roman

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writing, ''Der Brief in der römischen Litteratur'' (Leipzig, 1901), is considered a classic in the field.

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* ''Historicorum romanorum reliquiae'', Peter Hermann, I, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, Lipsiae
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''Historicorum romanorum reliquiae'', Peter Hermann, II, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, Lipsiae, 1906
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