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Iulius Africanus has rightly been known as the 'Father of Christian Chronography'. His global chronicle is without doubt one of the few works of Christian literature pioneering a brand new style. past due Antiquity and the center a long time mostly articulated their mirrored image on heritage within the kind of the area chronicle. The paintings has no longer been preserved in its entirety; the extant fragments need to be laboriously pieced jointly from the works of later authors. up to now, there has no longer been a serious version of this fabric, and the version in use this present day dates again approximately two hundred years (J.M. Routh 1814).

This new version within the GCS sequence closes an outdated hole within the programme of this series—and even as marks a brand new starting, simply because this is often the 1st version ever during this sequence to be released with an English translation. The variation establishes a very new beginning for our wisdom of Early Christian ancient considering, and also presents an enormous part in our knowing of a major epoch, the 'Imperial problem' of the third century, within which the recent international of overdue Antiquity started to improve out of the Hellenic-Roman history.

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In the case of the chronicle also, there might be an interesting case of fragmentary direct transmission. Berendts 1904,75-79 (hence Bardenhewer 1913-32, 2,266) analyzes the scarce information on a Meteora manuscript given by the Russian bishop Porfirij Uspenski (fl885). He saw the manuscript in 1859 and his notes were published posthumously in 1896 (Richard 1995, nr. 1676). All he says on the "ms. 34" of the monastery of the transfiguration (Metamorphosis) is the following: "Ιστορικόν από της οπτασίας του Δανιήλ έως της βασιλείας του Αντωνίνου Καρακάλλα...

Because of the important Milan manuscript, this text has also been called Chronicum Ambrosianum—certainly a better name than the ones used in the two editions. On names, transmission and editions, see Kresten 1969. 120 Wahlgren 2003. section A). 121 Gelzer 1,57-72. 122 See Wallraff 2006,56-58. XLVI Introduction remains cautious. Where there is neither an explicit attribution, nor a direct parallel in Syncellus or elsewhere, cases in which we have actually been able to ascribe material to Africanus with a sufficient degree of certainly remain very few (F25, F35, F76).

G. F34,90f) that Africanus included some of these themes in his description of Greek history after Moses; but we have very little evidence of them in the surviving fragments (F50,17f; F54a,17f). It seems, therefore, safer to include only the section of this long excursus, where Africanus is quoted by Malalas. For a different perspective, see Gelzer 1,140. 103 Gelzer 2,137f. XL Introduction of a closely related chronicle. 104 Nevertheless, the text of John of Antioch is still useful, since it occasionally offers a better version of Malalas' text than the codex Baroccianus 182, which is the only manuscript to have come down to us belonging to the direct transmission in Greek.

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