Late Antique Historiography

Kings and emperors of the Romans

Title(s):
  • Kings and emperors of the Romans
  • ῾Ρωμαίων βασιλεῖς καὶ αὐτοκράτορες
    (Rhōmaiōn basileis kai autokratores, The kings and emperors of the Romans)
Author:
Period covered:
753 B.C.-author's time?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
According to Jacoby (FGrHist 102), the historian Clement is a fictional author and the Suda entry the result of the identification of two homonymous authors: the chronographer mentioned by John Malalas (taken by Jacoby to be Clement of Alexandria; cf. our Clement of Antioch) and the grammarian who wrote commentaries on Plato (Schwartz 1900: 11).
Jacoby's identification of Clement of Alexandria with Malalas' source is far from sure (Jeffreys 1990: 175-176): indeed, Stronk (BNJ 102) rejects it, whereas Janiszewski (2006: 419-420) concedes that it is a possibility. In any case, as Janiszewski (2006: 420) points out, the historian of the Suda entry cannot correspond either to the chronographer mentioned by Malalas, or to the original Clement of Alexandria.
 
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Suda s.v. ζάλην, ῞Ηρας, παλίμβολος
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw: 416-422.
  • E. Jeffreys (1990) 'Malalas' sources'. In: Studies in John Malalas, ed. E. Jeffreys - B. Croke - R. Scott. Sydney: 167-216.
  • E. Schwartz (1900) 'Clemens (8)'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 4: 11.