Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle

Title(s):
  • Chronicle
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Continuatio continuationis Eusebii
Author:
Period covered:
350-363
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Hypothetical
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronica)
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
The existence of this text is generally accepted, even though the expansionist view on its reception as found in Brennecke (1988 and 1997) is not acceptable. Burgess (1999) demonstrates that the existence of a single Arian historiographer is not warranted: the first part of Bidez's fragments until 350 belong to Anonymous, Continuatio Antiochiensis Eusebii. Van Nuffelen (forthcoming) shows that the anonymous wrote a continuation of that chronicle until 363 and that we should prefer the reconstruction of Gwatkin and Battifol over that of Bidez. Ferguson (2005: 73) argues that the text is less arian than usually thought.
Edition - Translation:
  • J. Bidez, F. Winkelmann (1981) Philostorgius: Kirchengeschichte, mit dem Leben des Lucian von Antiochien und den Fragmenten eines arianischen Historiographen. Third edition. Berlin.
  • P. Amidon (2007) Philostorgius. Church History. Atlanta.
Fragments:
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • P. Batiffol (1895) 'Un historiographe anonyme arien du IVe siècle'. Römische Quartalschrift 9: 57-97.
  • H.C. Brennecke (1988) Studien zur Geschichte der Homöer: Der Osten bis zum Ende der homöischen Reichskirche. Tübingen.
  • H.C. Brennecke (1997) 'Christliche Quellen des Ammianus Marcellinus?'. Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 1: 226-250.
  • R. Burgess (1999) Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian chronography (Historia Einzelschriften, 135). Stuttgart.
  • T.C. Ferguson (2005) The past is prologue: The revolution of Nicene historiography (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplement 75). Leiden.
  • H.M. Gwatkin (1882) Studies of Arianism, chiefly referring to the character and chronology of the reaction which followed the Council of Nicæa. Cambridge.
  • J. Reidy (2014) An alternative history of the Church: A study of two lost Arian historians. Diss. University of Saint-Louis, Kentucky.
  • P. Van Nuffelen (2004) ' Socrate le Scholastique et les chroniqes'. Jahrbuch de österreichischen Byzantinistik 54: 53-75.
  • P. Van Nuffelen (forthcoming) 'Considérations sur l'Anonyme homéen'. In: Les historiens fragmentaires de l'Antiquité tardive, ed. E. Amato. Rennes.