Late Antique Historiography

Chronography

Title(s):
  • Chronography
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Period covered:
Creation-author's time
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronography)
  • Easter table
Remarks:
Photius (Bibliotheca 115) read a treatise by Metrodorus calculating the Easter date for 532 years from Diocletian onwards. This is probably the same author as the one named as writer of a chronicle by Jacob of Edessa. An option is to identify Metrodorus with the philosopher mentioned in Rufinus, Ecclesiastical history 10.9 and Cedrenus, Chronicle i.516.16-23. In favour of this earlier date pleads the fact that Jacob of Edessa cites Metrodorus in a list of authors dating to the early fifth century at the latest.
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (forthcoming) The fragmentary Greek chronicles after Eusebius: Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
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Bibliography:
  • A.A. Mosshammer (2008) The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era (Oxford early Christian studies). Oxford: 199.
  • F. Nau (1900) 'Lettre de Jacques d'Édesse à Jean le Stylite sur la chronologie biblique et la date de la naissance du Messie'. Revue de l'Orient chrétien 5: 581-596.