George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 660.1-660.7
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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 entry under the Year
of the World 5609 (109 C.E.), George listed the bishops of the eastern cities and
recorded an earthquake at Caesarea.
Text
Ἀντιοχείας δʹ ἐπίσκοπος Κορνήλιος ἔτη ιγʹ.Ἀλεξανδρείας ϛʹ ἐπίσκοπος
Ἰοῦστος ἔτη ιʹ.Νικόπολις καὶ Καισάρεια σεισμῷ κατεπτώθησαν.Ἱεροσολύμων θʹ ἐπίσκοπος Φίλιππος ἔτη βʹ.Ἱεροσολύμων ιʹ ἐπίσκοπος Σενέκας ἔτος αʹ.Ἱεροσολύμων ιαʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ἰοῦστος ἔτη δʹ.Ἱεροσολύμων ιβʹ ἐπίσκοπος Λευὶς ἔτη δʹ.1
Textual Note
Ed. Dindorf 1829Textual Note
Minor corr. J. L. Rife with ref. to Mosshammer 1984Translation
The fourth bishop of Antioch was Cornelius 13 yearsThe sixth
bishop of Alexandria was Justus 10 yearsNicopolis and Caesarea
collapsed in an earthquakeThe ninth bishop of Jerusalem was Philippus 2 yearsThe
tenth bishop of Jerusalem was Seneca 1 yearThe eleventh bishop of Jerusalem was
Justus 4 yearsThe twelfth bishop of Jerusalem was Levi 4 years2
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: 660.1-660.7.
- 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: 504.
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: 427.1-427.7.
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Joseph L. Rife, “George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 660.1-660.7,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published October 19, 2022, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/356.
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