![]() ![]() It begins with the earliest extant written records available to our author and continues to his own day, that is to the year 325. The Chronicle was the ancient world's first systematic, chronologically sound, universal history. These general characteristics of Eusebius' work are particularly highlighted in the Chronicle. Eusebius' welcome technique of including sometimes lengthy passages from such lost works guaranteed his writings an important place in historical literature, quite apart from his impressive literary and analytical abilities. ![]() Many of Eusebius' extant Greek texts were written while the author worked at the library in Caesarea Palestina founded by the scholar Origen (about 185 to about 254), where he had access to numerous works of antiquity which have not survived. From almost the moment of their translation, Eusebius' works played an important role in the development of Armenian historical writing. During the same period Eusebius' other influential work, the Ecclesiastical History, was translated into Armenian from the Syriac. Reflecting 5th-century Armenia's multi-lingual cultural milieu, Eusebius' Chronicle initially was translated into Armenian from the original Greek, then corrected using a Syriac edition. Nonetheless, the Latin translation of the chronological tables is invaluable, since the beginning and ending of the corresponding Armenian parts of Book Two are damaged. ![]() A 5th-century Latin translation (known as Jerome's Chronicle) contains only the second part of Eusebius' two-part work, namely the chronological tables which accompany the text of Book One. Although originally written in Greek, his important Chronicle (Chronography, or Chronicon) has survived fully only in an Armenian translation of the 5th century, of which our present edition is a translation. His other writings, many of which have survived, include the Ecclesiastical History, the Life of Constantine, historical, martyrological, apologetic, dogmatic, exegetical, and miscellaneous works. ![]() 339) author of the Chronicle translated below, was a major Christian author and cleric of the fourth century. See also Andrew Smith's remarkable annotated database of events for the period 322-49 B.C. Hardy, The Greek and Roman World (Cambridge, Mass. Sources for these chronologies are: The Cambridge Ancient History IX (Cambridge, 1962) The Cambridge History of Iran 3(1) (Cambridge, 1983) W. Rulers of: Egypt (Partial), Assyria, and Babylonia Iran, Greece, and Rome Israel, Judah, and Palestine Judea, Galilee, and Ituraea The following modern chronological tables appear as attachments to the pdf version of the present translation. Wallis Budge's translation of Bar Hebraeus' Chronography (sections I-VII). 37-100), Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, Jerome's Chronicle, Roger Pearse's translation of Eusebius' chronological tables, and E. It may be copied and distributed freely.Īvailable at Internet Archive are some useful accompaniments to the Chronicle: Translated from Classical Armenian by Robert Bedrosianĭownload in various formats from Internet Archive: Eusebius of Caesarea's Chronicle or Chronicon Ulrich, Dictionary of Early Christian Literature, p. As compared with Christian chroniclers who preceded him, Hippolytus and Julius Africanus, on whom Eusebius falls back at many points, his work is more accurate and critical in its overall conception and in its choice and evaluation of sources. The Greek original is lost, but an Armenian version survives, as does a Latin translation, addition, and continuation to 378 by Jerome. This is accomplished in an introductory outline of the history of ancient peoples (Chaldeans, Assyrians, Hebrews, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans) and by drawing up synchronic tables of world history, which run form the birth of Abraham, dated 2105/2106 B.C.E., to 303 C.E. ) to prove the greater age (and therefore the superiority) of the Jewish religion (and therefore of Christianity) over the pagan religions. Overview - Eusebius - Early Church HistorianĮusebius's historical works are wholly inspired by his basic apologetic purpose. ![]()
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