The Chronography of George Synkellos: A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Chronography of George Synkellos 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. The English translation is provided here, together with introduction and notes.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 24 October 2002
- Format: Hardback 728 pages
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- Categories: Prose: Non-fiction | Literary Essays | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | History Of Ideas | Time (chronology), Time Systems & Standards | General & World History | European History | Asian History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Early Church
- ISBN 13: 9780199241903 ISBN 10: 0199241902
- Sales rank: 1,266,788
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Full description for The Chronography of George Synkellos
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.
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