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The Chronicle (or Chronicon or
Temporum liber) was a universal chronicle, 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 of universal history, 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.
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
- Ninus, son of Belus reigned 52 years, Abraham, Zoroaster
- Semiramis, 42
years
- Zameis, 38 years; covenant of Abraham with God (1942 BC)
- Arius reigned for 30 years; birth of Isaac (1912 BC)
- Aralius, 40 years
- Xerxes Balaneus , 30 years; Inachus reigned for 50 years (1856 BC)
- Armamitres, 38 years
- Belocus, 35 years; birth of Joseph (1765
BC); Ogygian Flood (1757 BC)
- Balaeus, 52 years; famine in Egypt (1727 BC)
- Altadas, 32 years; Prometheus
- Mamynthus, 30 years
- Magchaleus, 30 years
- Sphaerus, 20 years;
birth of Moses (1592 BC)
- Mamylus, 30 years
- Sparetus, 40 years; Deucalian flood
(1526 BC)
- Ascatades, 40 years; Moses on Mount Sinai (1515 BC)
- Amynthes, 45 years; birth of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon (1445 BC)
- Belochus, 25 years
- Bellepares, 30 years; Perseus
- Lamprides, 32 years; Tros
(1365 BC)
- Sosares, 20 years; Pegasus
- Lampares, 30 years; Europa, temple at Eleusis
- Pannias, 45 years; Miletus; Argonauts; Oedipus; Gideon
- Sosarmus, 19 years; Hercules, Priam, Theseus, Seven against
Thebes (1234 BC)
- Mithraeus, 27 years; Olympic games (1212
BC)
- Tautanes, 32 years; Trojan War (1191-1182 BC)
- From the Fall of Troy, until the first Olympiad, 405 years.
- from the first Olympiad, to the 14th year of Valens, 1,155
years
Notes
- ^ Pearse,
Roger et al. (2005) The Chronicle of St. Jerome. http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_00_eintro.htm
- ^ Wood, Michael (2005) In
Search of Myths and Heroes http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/jason_01.shtml
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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