Interpreting Eusebius: The Vicissitudes of Christian Chronology from Africanus to Syncellus
Abstract
Scaliger’s commentary on the Chronicle started out austerely enough. He claimed that he would say relatively little about the topoi with which most commentators began: the author, the title, the purpose of the work, and so on. But though he professed that he would confine his own remarks to the single realm of chronology, he found plenty there to discuss. To begin with, he set the text into the context of the larger intellectual enterprise of which, he thought, it formed part: the Fathers’ historical debate with pagan intellectuals.
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- Authors
- Grafton, A.
- Corresponding author
- Grafton, Anthony
- Venue
- Joseph Scaliger
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 1993-12-16
- Pages
- 569-591
- OpenAlex
- W4388401214
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Byzantine Studies and History
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Keywords
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Christian chronology, Africanus, Scaliger, Chronicon, patristic historiography, biblical chronology
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