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The Chronography of George Synkellos

By William Adler , Paul Tuffin

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2002
ISBN
0199241902, 9780199241903
LCC
D17 .G3813 2002
Open Library ID
OL3670506M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7522744 bytes)
Pages
600\725
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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 to Byzantinists, students of ancient historiography, and specialists in biblical chronology, early Judaism, Egypt, and the Ancient Near East.

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