| Suetonian biography apart, historiography thereafter degenerated into handbooks and epitomes until Ammianus Marcellinus appeared. |
| Shridhara composed Ganitasara and Ganitapanchavimashi as epitomes of a larger work, which may or may not have been Patiganita. |
| For the rest we depend on excerpts and the epitomes of Zonaras and Xiphilinus. |
| They brought a dash of riotous assembly to a ceremony whose other big winners were those epitomes of middle-class good taste, James Blunt and Coldplay. |
| This is because characters whose feelings are supposed to be at stake are blunted, dumbed-down caricatures of notional human beings, rather than sharply etched epitomes of human behavior. |
| Contemporary philology has had a growing interest in the period and in the epitomai again, which has been proved by several colloquiums, monographs on the subject. |
