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Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240; Ancient Greek: Σέξτος Ἰούλιος ὁ Ἀφρικανός or ὁ Λίβυς) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries.
Chronographiae of Sextus Julius Africanus, covering events from Creation to 221; Chronographia, part of the Chronicon of Eusebius of 325; Chronograph of 354, covering events from Creation to 353; Chronographia Scaligeriana, work of c. 530; Chronographia of John Malalas, covering c. 491 – c. 578
The second part is a collection of regnal lists mainly derived from the Chronographiae of Sextus Julius Africanus from AD 211. [1] These include lists of Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian and Greek rulers. Not from Africanus are the list of High Priests of Israel and the list of Roman emperors. [2]
Sextus Julius Africanus (Chronographiai) calls him "Amyrteos", [4] while Eusebius of Caesarea calls him "Amirtaios" [1] — both of them recording that he reigned for 6 years. An ancient Egyptian prophetic text, the Demotic Chronicle (3rd/2nd century BC [ 5 ] ), states:
Heinrich Gelzer (1 July 1847, in Berlin – 11 July 1906, in Jena) was a German classical scholar.He wrote also on Armenian mythology. [1] He was the son of the Swiss historian Johann Heinrich Gelzer (1813–1889).
Sextus Julius Africanus writes, concerning the passion of Christ, "Concerning each of his deeds and his cures, both of bodies and souls, and the secrets of his knowledge, and his Resurrection from the dead, this has been explained with complete adequacy by his disciples and the apostles before us.
Africanus, Sextus Julius. Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240) was a Christian traveler and historian noted for his influence on Eusebius. Known as the father of Christian chronography. [272] [273] The extant writings of Julius Africanus (1886). Translated by Scottish educator Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1838–1905). [274]
De gestis in Perside was attributed to the second-century historian Sextus Julius Africanus by German scholars of the 19th century. Later scholars have thought this attribution unlikely, and attributed it to a misreading of a Greek abbreviation "Aphr" as referring to Africanus in manuscripts found in Munich but not elsewhere.