The Chronography of George Synkellos
A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 August 2002
- ISBN 9780199241903
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages728 pages
- Size 242x165x42 mm
- Weight 1147 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
George Synkellos, a monk of Constantinople who once held a position of authority under the patriarch Tarasios, composed (in Greek) a chronicle of universal history in the early ninth century. Beginning with the creation of the universe, the chronicle preserves a rich collection of ancient sources, many of them otherwise unknown. The English translation provided here, together with introduction and notes, promises to make this influential and wide-ranging history more accessible.
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In the early ninth century, George Synkellos, a monk of Constantinople set out to compose (in Greek) a universal chronicle beginning with the creation of the universe. Synkellos' death prevented him from seeing this ambitious project through to completion, and it fell to a fellow monk, Theophanes Confessor, to complete the narrative from the reign of the emperor Dicoletian up until his own day. The purpose of the chronicle, as Synkellos states on several occasions, was to confirm the orthodox dating of the incarnation of Christ at the completion of the 5500th year from the creation of the universe. In the course of demonstrating this point, Synkellos cites extensively from numerous histories and chronicles from Egypt and the Ancient Near East, some of which are unattested elsewhere. Since the author comments at length on his authorities and predecessors, his work is also a rich resource of information about the origins and development of early Christian chronography. Despite its recognized importance, the chronicle has never been translated into a modern language. The English translation provided here, together with introduction and notes, promises to make this influential and wide-ranging history more accessible to Byzantinists, students of ancient historiography,and specialists in biblical chronology, early Judaism, Egypt, and the Ancient Near East.
This splendidly produced volume makes available a fascinating genre of historiography, important for our understanding of the Byzantines' understanding of themselves and their place in history.
Table of Contents:
Synkellos and the Christian Chronographic Tradition
Synkellos' Contribution to Chronography
Modes of Chronological Argumentation
Structure and Organization in the Christian Universal Chronicle from Eusebios to Synkellos
Synkellos' Sources and Originality
Chronological Conventions: Eras and Cycles
Textual History and Greek Editions of Synkellos
Synkellos' Chronicle in Scholarship since Scaliger
Previous Translations
The Present Translation and its Conventions
The Chronography of George Synkellos
Appendix of Biblical Names
Index of Subjects and Names
Index of Textual Citations
