George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 627.17-628.8
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Context
George Syncellus (“cellmate”), whose career spanned the late 8th to
very early 9th centuries, was a Palestinian monk before his appointment as the assistant
to Tarasius, Patriarch of Contantinople. Apparently facing hostility from the emperor
Nicephorus I, he retired to monastic solitude in ca. 808, where he devoted himself to
writing his Chronographic Selection (Ἐκλογὴ Χρονογραφίας). This work was
a universal history in the form of a synchronic tabulation by year, following the
chronographic models of the Late Antique Near East and Egypt that were rooted in the
works of Sextus Julius Africanus and Eusebius of Caesarea. In his long entry under the
Year of the World 5540 (40 C.E.), George summarized the career of St. Paul, including
his activities at Caesarea.
Text
Παύλου καὶ Σίλα ἐπάνοδος ἐν Δέρβῃ καὶ Λύστροις καὶ Φρυγίᾳ Ἰσαυρίᾳ τε καὶ
Κιλικίᾳ καὶ Γαλατίᾳ καὶ Τρωάδι.Παύλου καὶ Μάρκου αἱ ἐν Φιλίπποις καὶ Θεσσαλονίκῃ καὶ
Βεροίῃ πράξεις.Παύλου ἐν Ἀθήναις καὶ Κορίνθῳ πράξεις.Παύλου αἱ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ καὶ
Κεγχρεαῖς Καισαρείᾳ τε καὶ Ἀντιοχείᾳ, Ἰταλίᾳ καὶ Φρυγίᾳ πράξεις.
Παύλου τὰ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ἰδίως.Παῦλος τὰ ἐν Τρωάδι καὶ Μιλήτῳ παρέθετο Ἐφεσίοις.Τὰ ἐν
Ἱερουσαλὴμ τῶν Ἰουδαίων κατὰ Παύλου.Παύλου τὰ ἐν Καισαρείᾳ
κατὰ Φίλικα καὶ Δρουσίλλαν.Παύλου τὰ ἐν Καισαρείᾳ καὶ τὰ
Ἰουδαίων κατ’ αὐτοῦ.1
Textual Note
Ed. Dindorf 1829Textual Note
Minor corr. J. L. Rife with ref. to Mosshammer 1984Translation
The return of Paul and Silas to Derbe, Lystra, Phrygia, Isauria,
Cilicia, Galatia, and Troas.The acts of Paul and Mark in Philippi, Thessalonica, and
Beroea.The acts of Paul in Athens and Corinth.The acts of Paul in Ephesus,
Kenchreai, Caesarea, Antioch, Italy, and Phrygia.What Paul did
on his own in Ephesos.Paul commended his actions in Troas and Miletus to the
Ephesians.The actions of the Jews in Jerusalem against Paul.The actions of Paul in
Caesarea regarding Felix and Drusilla.The actions of Paul
in Caesarea and the actions of the Jews against him.2
Translation Note
Rev. Adler and Tuffin 2002 with ref. to Dindorf 1829Works Cited
- 1 George Syncellus, Georgius Syncellus et Nicephorus Cp. I, ed. Wilhelm Dindorfius, vol. 1, 2 vols., Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (Bonn: Weber, 1829), p: 627.17-628.8.
- 2 George Syncellus, The Chronography of George Synkellos: A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation, trans. William Adler and Paul Tuffin (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), p: 481.
Additional Bibliography
- Origen, Der Brief des Origenes an Gregorios Thaumaturgos [Letter to Gregory the Miracle-Worker], in Des Gregorios Thaumaturgos Dankrede an Origenes, ed. Paul Koetschau, Sammlung ausgewählter kirchen- und dogmengeschichtlicher Quellenschriften 9 (Freiburg & Leipzig: Mohr, 1894), 40–44, p: 403.17-403.28.
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