Chronicon (Jerome)

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The Chronicle (or Chronicon or Temporum liber) was one of Jerome's earliest attempts in the department of history. It was composed circa 380 in Constantinople; this is a translation into Latin of the chronological tables which compose the second part of the Chronicon of Eusebius, with a supplement covering the period from 325 to 379. In spite of numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals.

The Chronicle contains a chronology of the events of Greek mythology, based on the work of Hellenistic scholars such as Apollodorus, Diodorus Siculus, and Eusebius.[1] While the earlier parts are clearly unhistorical, there may be scattered remnants of historical events of late Mycenean Greece from entires of the 12th century BC (see Historicity of the Iliad; notably, Jerome's date for the capture of Troy of 1183 BC corresponds remarkably well with the destruction layer of Troy VIIa, the main candidate for the historical inspiration of legendary Troy, dated to ca. 1190 BC). Homer himself is dated to 940 BC, while modern scholarship usually places him after 800 BC.

Contents

[edit] Timeline

From Adam until the 14th year of Valens, 5,579 years

From Abraham to the Fall of Troy (26 kings of the Assyrians), 835 years
From the Fall of Troy, until the first Olympiad, 405 years.
from the first Olympiad, to the 14th year of Valens, 1,155 years

[edit] Notes

  1. ^  Pearse, Roger et al. (2005) The Chronicle of St. Jerome. http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_00_eintro.htm
  2. ^  Wood, Michael (2005) In Search of Myths and Heroes http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/jason_01.shtml

[edit] Literature

  • Richard W. Burgess, Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian Chronography, Stuttgart (1999).
  • Malcolm Drew Donalson, A Translation of Jerome's Chronicon With Historical Commentary, Mellen University Press (1996). ISBN 0-7734-2258-7.
  • J. K. Fotheringham, The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius Reproduced in Collotype. Oxford: Clarendon (1905)
  • J. K. Fotheringham, Eusebii Pamphili Chronici canones. London: Humphrey Milford (1923). (Photocopy)
  • R. Helm, Eusebius Werke 7: Die Chronik des Hieronymus, Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der Ersten Jahrhunderte 47 (1956).
  • Benoît Jeanjean & Bertrand Lançon, Saint-Jérôme, Chronique : Continuation de la Chronique d'Eusèbe, années 326-378, Brest, (2004), ISBN : 2753500185.
  • Josef KARST, Eusebius Werke, 5. Band : Die Chronik aus dem Armenischen übersetzt. Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der Ersten Jahrhunderte 20 (1911).
  • Alden A. Mosshammer, The Chronicle of Eusebius and the Greek Chronographic Tradition, Lewisburg/London (1979), ISBN 0-8387-1939-2.
  • Alfred Schoene, Eusebi Chronicorum Libri. 2 vols. Berlin: Weidmann (1875).
  • Robert Graves; The Greek Myths (1955) ISBN 0-14-017199-1
  • Alden A. Mosshammer; The Chronicle of Eusebius and Greek Chronographic Tradition, Bucknell University Press (1979) ISBN 0-8387-1939-2
  • J. C. Stobart; The Glory that was Greece (1911) ISBN 0-283-48455-1
  • Michael Wood; In Search of the Trojan War (1998) ISBN 0-520-21599-0

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