Chronicle
Subtitle: known also as the Chronicle of Zuqnin : part III
By: Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre ; translated with notes and introduction by Witold Witakowski.
Contributors: Witakowski, Witold.
Series: Translated texts for historians -- v. 22
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Syria -- History -- 333 B.C.-634 A.D.
Other titles: Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Chronicle; Chronicle of Zuqnin
Description: The Chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius (or the Zuqnin Chronicle) is an important historiographical work dating from the end of the eighth century. The third part of the Chronicle, translated here, is based on the otherwise lost part of the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus (d. ca.588), which relates events in the reigns of Zeno, Anastasius, Justin I and Justinian. The work is written from the point of view of a religious dissident, a Monophysite, whose personal experience as a persecuted monk in his native Mesopotamia, as well as his later life in Constantinople, make the History a most interesting and unusual source.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. viii-xiii) and indexes.