Late Antique Historiography

Chronography

Title(s):
  • Chronography
Author:
Period covered:
Adam-author's time?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronography)
Remarks:
Panodorus corrected Eusebius' chronicle and integrated the period before Abraham into his chronography. Given the level of discussion of methodological problems in the extant fragments, the work was most likely a chronography.
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (forthcoming) The fragmentary Greek chronicles after Eusebius: Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
Fragments:
  • Georgius Syncellus, Chronography [Mosshammer 1984: 34.22-35.22, 37.12-15, 41.29-42.23, 89.2-5, 265.29-266.3, 377.18-378.18, 396.11-397.10)
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Sources:
Bibliography:
  • W. Adler, P. Tuffin (2002) The Chronography of George Synkellos: A Byzantine chronicle of universal history from the creation. Oxford.
  • W. Adler (1989) Time immemorial: Archaic history and its sources in christian chronology from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus. Washington.
  • H. Gelzer (1885) Sextus Julius Africanus und die Byzantinische Chronographie. Leipzig.
  • A.A. Mosshammer (2008) The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era (Oxford early Christian studies). Oxford.
  • A.A. Mosshammer (1984) Georgii Syncellii Ecloga chronographica (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.