Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle

Title(s):
  • Chronicle
Author:
Period covered:
Creation-author's time?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronica)
Remarks:
The source of Malalas is usually identified with Clement of Alexandria, and the references are supposed to be drawn from the Stromateis or to be fictional. Clement of Alexandria is identified as a chronographer by Jacob of Edessa (Nau 1900: 590). This may be the result of a later contamination.  It is more likely that we are dealing with a real work of chronography to be ascribed to another Clement. Michael the Great mentions a Clement regarding the rebuilding of the Temple.
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (forthcoming) The fragmentary Greek chronicles after Eusebius: Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
Fragments:
  • John Malalas, Chronicle pr.
  • John Malalas, Chronicle 2.9, 10.2, 10.4, 10.13, 10.15, 11.29, 18.8
  • Michael the Great, Chronicle 4.21
  • Paschal Chronicle 232d [Dindorf 1832: 436]
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Sources:
Bibliography:
  • L. Dindorf (1832) Chronicon paschale (Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae). Bonn.
  • E. Jeffreys (1990) 'Malalas' sources'. In: Studies in John Malalas, ed. E. Jeffreys - B. Croke - R. Scott. Sydney: 175-176.
  • F. Nau (1900) 'Lettre de Jacques d'Édesse à Jean le Stylite sur la chronologie biblique et la date de la naissance du Messie'. Revue de l'Orient chrétien 5: 581-596.
  • P. Van Nuffelen (2017) ' Malalas and the chronographic traition'. In: Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas: Quellenfragen, ed. L. Carrara - M. Meier - C. Radtki. Stuttgart: 261-272