Late Antique Historiography

Chronological epitome

Title(s):
  • Chronological epitome
  • Χρονικὴ ἐπιτομή
    (Chronikē epitomē, Chronicle epitome)
Author:
Period covered:
Creation?-12th year of Anastasius (502/503)
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (chronological history)
Remarks:
An additional fragment can be found in Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, Ecclesiastical history 14.57-58 (Patrologia Graeca 146/2, 1272-1274), copied from Evagrius. Treadgold (2007) suggests that Eustathius is a common source  of John Malalas and John of Antioch, which is unlikely.
Edition - Translation:
  • FHG IV, 138-142
  • P. Allen (1988) 'An early epitomator of Josephus, Eustathius of Epiphaneia'. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 81: 1-11.
  • L. Van Hoof, P. Van Nuffelen (Forthcoming) The fragmentary Greek chronicles after Eusebius: Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
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Bibliography:
  • D. Brodka (2006) 'Eustathius von Epiphaneia und das Ende des Weströmischen Reiches'. Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik 57: 59-78.
  • R. Burgess (1993-1994) 'The accession of Marcian in the light of Chalcedonian apologetic and monophysite polemic'. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 86-87: 47-68.
  • L. Jeep (1884) Quellenuntersuchungen zu den griechischen Kirchenhistorikern (Jahrbücher für klassische Philologie, Supplement 14). Berlin: 159-161.
  • P. Maas (1938) 'Eine Handschrift der Weltgeschichte des Eustathios von Epiphaneia'. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 38: 350.
  • W.T. Treadgold (2007) 'The Byzantine World histories of John Malalas and Eustathius of Epiphaneia'. International History Review 29: 709-745.
  • W.T. Treadgold (2007) 'The Byzantine world histories of John Malalas and Eustathius of Epiphania'. International History Review 27: 709-745.