Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle

Title(s):
  • Chronicle
  • Χρονικὸν σύνταγμα
    (Chronikon suntagma, Chronographic account)
  • Χρονικόν
    (Chronikon, Chronicle)
  • Χρονικὸν βιβλίον
    (Chronikon biblion, Book of chronology)
  • Χρονικὴ ἱστορία
    (Chronikē historia, Chronographic history)
Author:
Period covered:
Christ-author's time
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (narrative chronicle)
Remarks:
Hippolytus' work was known in three editions. Three chapters from the Parastaseis syntomai chronikai (5c, 6, 7) are attributed to a Hippolytus (Diekamp 1898: xliii-xlviii, 33-34; Cameron 1984: 41, 63-67), who may be Hippolytus of Thebes.
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Bibliography:
  • W. Adler (1989) Time immemorial: Archaic history and its sources in Christian chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus. Washington DC.
  • Av. Cameron, J. Herrin (1984) Constantinople in the early eighth century: The Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai. Leiden.
  • R.A. Culpepper (1994) John, the son of Zebedee: The life of a legend. South Carolina: 174.
  • C. Guignard (2016) 'Greek lists of the Apostles: New findings and open questions'. Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 20: 469-495.
  • R. Riesner (1998) Paul's early period: Chronology, mission strategy, theology. Grand Rapids - Cambridge.