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- Title
A Reappraisal of the Chronicle of Theodore of Kyzikos.
- Authors
Zafeiris, Konstantinos
- Abstract
Although the Chronicle of Theodore of Kyzikos has been known to scholarship and was included in Kurmbacher's Geschichte Der Byzantinischen Litteratur, it was later identified with the Synopsis Chronike, and hence excluded from any further research. The article reconsiders the text and its place in Byzantine historiography, focusing on its relationship to the Synopsis Chronike. It analyses their similarities and differences, particularly in terms of textual criticism, and examines possible connections between them. Finally, it concludes that the accepted hypothesis that the two texts are one and the same (or mere variations of the same text) is not valid. Instead, it proposes that the Chronicle of Theodore of Kyzikos and the Synopsis Chronike are two distinct chronicles that derive from an earlier common archetype, which is now lost.
- Subjects
HISTORIOGRAPHY; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); ORATORY; BIOGRAPHICAL sources; LITERARY journeys; AUTHORSHIP; BYZANTINE historical poetry; BYZANTINE Empire
- Publication
Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2010, Vol 103, Issue 2, p773
- ISSN
0007-7704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/BYZS.2010.023