Late Antique Historiography

Chronography

Title(s):
  • Chronography
  • ժամանակագրութիւն
    (Žamanakageut‘win, Chronicle)
Author:
Period covered:
Adam-353
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Easter table
  • Chronicle (chronography)
Remarks:
Andreas is best known as the author of a Paschal cycle starting in 353 and running until 552 (not included in this clavis).  It is likely that the Easter table was integrated in the chronicle, which possibly was a chronographic treatise.
The Easter table is said by Kirakos of Gandzak (Bedrosian 1986: 37) to have been composed on the orders of the emperor Constantine, who, given the date of composition, must be Constantius II.
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (forthcoming) The fragmentary Greek chronicles after Eusebius: Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
Fragments:
  • Jacob of Edessa, Letter to John the Stylite [Nau 1900: 584, 590]
  • Ananias of Širak, On Easter [Abrahamayan 1944: 295, l. 31-39 and 299, ll. 7-8; Conybeare 1897; Strobel 1984: 130, 135]
  • Philo of Tirak, Chronicle [Sargisian 1914: 53; Bauer 1929: 429]
  • Step'anos Taronec'i, History 2.6 [Malxaseanc' 1885: 138; Manukyan 2012, 730]
  • Kirakos of Gandzak, History [Ohanjanyan 1961: 41 l.13-42; Bedrosian 1986: 37]
  • Anonymous, On Easter [Dulaurier 1859: 58-59]
  • Philo of Tirak, Chronicle [Sargisian 1914: 1 l. 5 - 19 l. 16 = Abrahamyan 1944: 357-360]
  • Elias of Nisibis, Chronicle [Brooks 1910 (ed.): 52.12-16]
  • Hovhannes Sarkavag [Abrahamyan 1956: 132, l. 35-48, 215, 217, 224 l. 75-78, 224 l.3-225 l.16, 226 l.57-64, 242 l.1-10, 246 l.17-24, 246 l.28-247 l. 37, 295 l. 7-9]
  • Samuel of Ani, Chronicle a. 353, 553 [PG 19.667, 683-684]
  • Hakob Grimetsi [Eynat’yan 1987: 304-305]
  • Anonymous, Dialogue on the birthday of Christ [Conybeare 1904: 328; Strobel 1977: 156 n. 3]
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