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Chronographia (Greek: Χρονογραφία), meaning "description of time", and its English equivalents, Chronograph and Chronography, may refer to: . Chronographiae of Sextus Julius Africanus, covering events from Creation to 221
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).
John of Antioch's chronicle, Historia chronike, is a universal history stretching from Adam to the death of Phocas; it is one of the many adaptations and imitations of the better known chronicle of John Malalas.
Sextus Julius Frontinus, better known as Frontinus, author of treatises on aqueducts and military tactics; Sextus Julius Major, proconsul of Africa AD 141–142; Sextus Julius Severus, a Roman governor in the 2nd century AD; Sextus Julius Saturninus, praenomen possibly Gaius, one of the usurpers of Gallienus; Sextus Julius Africanus, a ...
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.
In the course of their studies, men such as Tatian of Antioch (flourished in 180), Clement of Alexandria (died before 215), Hippolytus of Rome (died in 235), Sextus Julius Africanus of Jerusalem (died after 240), Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine (260–340), and Pseudo-Justin frequently quoted their predecessors, the Graeco-Jewish biblical ...
Sextus Caecilius Africanus (died ca. 169/175) was an ancient Roman jurist and a pupil of Salvius Julianus. Only one quote ( Dig. 30,39 pr.) remains of his Epistulae of at least twenty books. Excerpts of his Quaestiones , a collection of legal cases in no particular order in nine books, are also reproduced in the Digests.
John's view of the earliest periods of history is informed by sources such as Sextus Julius Africanus and John Malalas. The Chronicle is most noteworthy for its passages dealing with the early 7th century. John covers in detail the revolt of the Thracian armies in 602 and the subsequent overthrow of the Emperor Maurice by the usurper Phocas.