Late Antique Historiography

On Antioch

Title(s):
  • On Antioch
  • Περὶ ᾽Αντιοχείας
    (Peri Antiocheias, On Antioch)
  • ᾽Αντιοχείας κτίσις
    (Antiocheias ktisis, Foundation of Antioch)
  • Περὶ ᾽Αντιοχείας κτίσεως
    (Peri Antiocheias ktiseōs, On the foundation of Antioch)
Author:
Period covered:
3rd c. B.C.-?
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (local history)
  • Poetry (general)
Remarks:
Jacoby identifies Pausanias of Antioch with Pausanias of Damascus (mentioned by Constantine VII: FGrHist 854 T 1). The identification has been widely discussed (Christ - Schmid - Stählin 1913: 759, n. 2; Diller 1955: 268-279; Janiszewski 2006: 181-184; Asirvatham 2014). Jacoby's dating (fourth century A.D., before 358/359 A.D.) is based on a supposed link between Pausanias' writing and Libanius' Antiochicus (Foerster 1906: xxxiv-xxxv; Wiemer 2003: 450). John Malalas, Chronicle 8.25, which can be interpreted as indicating that Domninus used Pausanius, would imply a terminus ante quem of the first half of the fourth century. John Malalas mentions Pausanias in four passages of his Chronography (FGrHist 854 F9-F12), presenting him as a chronographer (χρονογράφος). This does not preclude an identification with the author quoted by Stephen of Byzantium and John Tzetzes (BNJ 854). According to Malalas (cf. F 10), Pausanias wrote his work in verses (ποιητικῶς).
Edition - Translation:
  • FGrHist 854
  • BNJ 854
  • B. Garstad (2011) 'Pausanius of Antioch: Introduction, translation, and commentary'. Aram 23: 669-691
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Bibliography:
  • A. Diller (1955) 'The authors named Pausanias'. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 86: 268-279.
  • R. Foerster (1902) 'De Libanio, Pausania, Templo Apollinis Delphico'. In: Album gratulatorium in honorem H. Van Herwerden. Utrecht: 45-54.
  • R. Foerster (1906) Libanius: Opera (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Volume Three. Leipzig: xxxiv-xxxv.
  • 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: 181-187.
  • M. Jeffreys (1990) 'Malalas' sources'. In: Studies in John Malalas, ed. E. Jeffreys - B. Croke - R. Scott. Sydney: 167-216, esp. 188-189.
  • W. Von Christ, W. Schmid, O. Stählin (1913) Die nachklassische Periode der griechischen Literatur (Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, 2). Munich.
  • W. Von Christ, W. Schmid, O. Stählin (1913) Die nachklassische Periode der griechischen Literatur (Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, 2). Munich.
  • W. Von Christ, W. Schmid, O. Stählin (1913) Die nachklassische Periode der griechischen Literatur (Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, 2). Munich.
  • H.-U. Wiemer (2003) 'Vergangenheit und Gegenwart im Antiochikos des Libanios'. Klio 85: 442-468.