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 to Byzantinists, students of ancient historiography, and specialists in biblical chronology, early Judaism, Egypt, and the Ancient Near East.
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"Adler and Tuffin have produced a well-designed annotated translation...This volume is a valuable source and contribution to understanding the history of scholarship as well as Late Antique and Byzantine perspectives and the limits of their knowledge of the history of the ancient Near East."
-Journal of Near Eastern Studies
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Paul Tuffin is Senior Lecturer in Classics, Adelaide University
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The Chronography of George Synkellos, Kastor of Rhodes, Elias Nis, Antiochos Epiphanes, Alexander Polyhistor, Astronomical Canon, Trojan War, Antiochos the Great, Augustus Caesar, Handy Tables, Ecclesiastical Computation, Kekrops the Double-Natured, Ptolemy Philadelphos, Eueilad Marodach, Red Sea, Tiberius Caesar, Alexander of Macedon, Eusebios Pamphilou, Leo Gramm, Asia Minor, Demetrios Poliorketes, Eusebios of Caesarea, Gaius Julius Caesar, Pharaoh Nechao, Fourth Kingdoms New!
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fifteenth bishop, iooo talents, twelfth bishop, fourteenth bishop, seventeenth king, sixteenth bishop, eleventh bishop, fourteenth king, universal years, eighteenth king, thirteenth bishop, fifteenth king, nineteenth king, thirteenth king, twelfth king, twentieth king, eleventh king, sixteenth king, ten sars, tenth bishop, tooth year, eighth bishop, seventh bishop, ninth king, ninth bishop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Chronography of George Synkellos, Kastor of Rhodes, Elias Nis, Antiochos Epiphanes, Alexander Polyhistor, Astronomical Canon, Trojan War, Antiochos the Great, Augustus Caesar, Handy Tables, Ecclesiastical Computation, Kekrops the Double-Natured, Ptolemy Philadelphos, Eueilad Marodach, Red Sea, Tiberius Caesar, Alexander of Macedon, Eusebios Pamphilou, Leo Gramm, Asia Minor, Demetrios Poliorketes, Eusebios of Caesarea, Gaius Julius Caesar, Pharaoh Nechao, Fourth Kingdoms New!
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