Late Antique Historiography

Creation of the world

Title(s):
  • Creation of the world
  • Κοσμοποιΐα
    (Kosmopoiia, Creation)
Author:
Period covered:
Mythical past
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Poetry (historical epic)
Remarks:
Wyss (1949: 194, n. 45) attributes the poem of P. Stras. Gr. Inv. 480 (the so-called Cosmogony of Strasbourg) to Antimachus: it describes the creation of the world by Hermes and supposedly was a source of Gregory of Nazianzus. The identification of the two texts cannot be demonstrated. John Tzetzes (Lycophron 245) quotes three lines of an unspecified Antimachus: it is not possible to determine if he is identical with the poet of Heliopolis, or with another namesake instead.    
Edition - Translation:
  • H. Düntzer (1842) Die Fragmente der epischen Poesie der Griechen von Alexander dem Grossen bis zum Ende des fünften Jahrhunderts nach Christus. Köln: 97-98.
Fragments:
  • Suda, α 2682
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • A. Adler (1928) Suidae Lexicon. Volume One (Lexicographi Graeci recogniti et apparatu critico instructi, 1). Leipzig: 238.
  • D. Gigli Piccardi (1990) La 'Cosmologia di Strasburgo'. Florence.
  • G. Wentzel (1894) 'Antimachos (25)'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 1: 2436.
  • B. Wyss (1949) 'Gregor von Nazianz: Ein griechisch-christlicher Dichter des 4. Jahrhunderts'. Museum Helveticum 6: 177-210.