History

Title(s):
  • History
Author:
Period covered:
Creation-Diocletian (and possibly until Leo I)
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (local history)
  • Chronicle (general)
Remarks:
The work was concerned with Antiochene history, with special emphasis on its legendary past. It is likely that Malalas used Domninus extensively throughout book XIV of his work (Bourier 1899: 9-22; Jeffreys 1990: 178; Croke 1990: 8). Patzig argued that Nestorianus, another historian mentioned by Malalas, and Domninus were one and the same person (Patzig 1901: 40-53). Janiszewski places the composition of Domninus' work in the mid-fourh century (Janiszewski 2006: 291). It is likely that Domninus was not a Christian, given his praise for Diocletian (John Malalas, Chronicle 12.44).
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • John Malalas, Chronicle 4.24, 8.25, 10.10, 10.51, 11.4, 12.26, 12.44
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • P.H. Bourier (1899) Über die Quellen der ersten vierzehn Bücher des Johannes Malalas. Augsburg.
  • A. Freund (1882) Beiträge zur Antiochenischen und zur Konstantinopolitanischen Stadtchronik. Jena.
  • 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: 282-291.
  • E. Jeffreys (1990) 'Malalas' sources'. In: Studies in John Malalas, ed. E. Jeffreys - B. Croke - R. Scott. Sydney: 167-216.
  • E. Patzig (1891-1892) Johannes Antiochenus und Johannes Malalas: Jahresbericht der Thomasschule für das Schuljahr Ostern 1891 bis Ostern 1892. Leipzig.
  • E. Patzig (1901) 'Review of Bourier'. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 10: 256-262, 598-611.
  • E. Patzig (1901) 'Die Abhängigkeit des Johannes Antiochenus von Johannes Malalas'. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 10: 40-53.
  • I. Thurn (2000) Ioannis Malalae Chronographia (Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae: Series Berolinensis, 35). Berlin.
  • G. Traina (1991) Il Complesso di Trimalcione: Movsēs Xorenac'I e le origini del pensiero storico armeno. Venice.
  • G. Traina (1998) 'Materiali per un commento a Movsēs Xorenac‘i, Patmut‘iwn Hayoc‘ II'. Le muséon 111: 95-138.