Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle

Title(s):
  • Chronicle
  • Cronica ab initio mundi usque ad tempus suum
    (Cronica ab initio mundi usque ad tempus suum, Chronicle from the beginning of the world until his own time)
Author:
Period covered:
Creation-second half of 4th c.
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronica)
Remarks:
The work is only attested in the catalogue of Giovanni Mansionario, an early-fourteenth-century scholar. According to Croke (2001: 300), it was intended as a rival to Jerome's translation of Eusebius. However, it could also constitute a Christianized version of the works of Nepos and/or Castor (Burgess and Kulikowski 2013: 128).
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • R.P.H. Green (1991) The works of Ausonius. Oxford: 720.
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • R. Burgess, M. Kulikowski (2013) Mosaics of time: The Latin chronicle traditions from the first century B.C. to the sixth century A.D. (Studies in the early Middle Ages, 33). Turnhout.
  • B. Croke (2001) 'Chronicles, annals and "consular annals" in Late Antiquity'. Chiron 31: 291-331.