Late Antique Historiography

Theosophy of Tübingen

Title(s):
  • Theosophy of Tübingen
  • Θεοσοφία
    (Theosophia, Theosophy)
Author:
Period covered:
Adam-Zenon
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronica)
Remarks:
Book 4 of the Theosophy is a chronicle from Adam to Zenon. According to Beatrice (2001), it is a version of the same chronicle of which the Excerpta Latina Barbari are a Latin translation. This is disputed by Burgess (2013: 39).
Edition - Translation:
  • P.F. Beatrice (2001) Anonymi Monophysitae Theosophia (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplement 56). Leiden.
  • H. Erbse (1995) Theosophorum Graecorum fragmenta (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Stuttgart - Leipzig.
Fragments:
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • R. Burgess (2013) 'The date, purpose, and historical context of the original Greek and the Latin translation of the so-called Excerpta Latina Barbari'. Traditio 68: 1-56.