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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
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).
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:
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.
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.
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 ...