Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle

Title(s):
  • Chronicle
  • التاريخ
    (al-ta’rīkh, History/Chronicle)
  • اخبار
    (akhbār, Accounts/Chronicle)
Author:
Period covered:
Fall of Troy-?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronography)
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
Porphyry's chronicle (only attested in F194a and b Smith, a late Arabic text) is probably identical to the History of philosophy, but see John Malalas, Chronicle 2.18 who refers to Porphyry's Philosophos chronographia.
Edition - Translation:
  • FGrHist 260
  • A. Smith (1993) Porphyrii philosophi fragmenta (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Stuttgart - Leipzig (F193-224).
  • BNJ 260
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Bibliography:
  • B. Croke (1983) 'Porphyry's anti-Christian chronology'. The Journal of Theological Studies 34: 168-185.