Chronicon (Eusebius)

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The Chronicon or Chronicle (

in A.D. 325. Book 1 contained sets of extracts from earlier writers; book 2 contained a technically innovative list of dates and events in tabular format.

The original

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The Chronicle as preserved extends to the year 325, and was written before the "Church History".

Contents

The work was composed divided into two parts. The first part (Greek, Chronographia, "Annals") gives a summary of universal history from the sources, arranged according to nations. The second part (Greek, Chronikoi kanones, "Chronological Canons") furnishes a synchronism of the historical material in parallel columns, the equivalent of a parallel timeline, where each line is a year. It is the longest preserved list of Olympic victors, containing however mainly the stadion (running race) winners from 776 B.C. to A.D. 217. These tables have been completely preserved in a Latin translation by Jerome and both parts are still extant in an Armenian translation.

The work may be reconstructed from later chronographers of the

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Further reading

• The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius, with an introduction by John Knight Fotheringham (Oxford, 1905)

See also

• Chronicon (Jerome)
• Mesopotamia in Classical literature
• Onomasticon (Eusebius)
• Universal chronicle

External links

• Eusebii ... Chronicon bipartitum, ex Arm. textu in Lat. conversum, adnotationibus auctum, Gr. fragmentis exornatum, opera J.B. Aucher - Only edition of the Armenian, with Latin translation.
• English translation of book 1 - from the Armenian text of Aucher, by Robert Bedrosian.
• English translation of book 1 - from the Armenian text, mirror if main site unavailable.
• English translation of book 1 - from the modern Latin translation of the ancient Armenian version.
• English translation of Jerome's Chronicon - book 2 of Eusebius with Jerome's additions.
• Catholic Encyclopedia article