Miscellanies 1.21.138
Summary: Eratosthenes' chronology from Troy to Alexander, and the Roman dates from the founding of Rome.
Greek text · Stählin 2:85–86
Ἐρατοσθένης δὲ τοὺς χρόνους ὧδε ἀναγράφει· ἀπὸ μὲν Τροίας ἁλώσεως ἐπὶ Ἡρακλειδῶν κάθοδον ἔτη ὀγδοήκοντα· ἐντεῦθεν δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰωνίας κτίσιν ἔτη ἑξήκοντα· τὰ δὲ τούτοις ἑξῆς ἐπὶ μὲν τὴν ἐπιτροπίαν τὴν Λυκούργου ἔτη ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα ἐννέα· ἐπὶ δὲ τὸ προηγούμενον ἔτος τῶν πρώτων ὀλυμπίων ἔτη ἑκατὸν ὀκτώ· ἀφʼ ἧς ὀλυμπιάδος ἐπὶ τὴν Ξέρξου διάβασιν ἔτη διακόσια ἐνενήκοντα ἑπτά· ἀφʼ ἧς ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ Πελοποννησιακοῦ πολέμου ἔτη τεσσαράκοντα ὀκτώ· καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν κατάλυσιν καὶ Ἀθηναίων ἧτταν ἔτη εἴκοσι ἑπτά· καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐν Λεύκτροις μάχην ἔτη τριάκοντα τέσσαρα· μεθʼ ἣν ἐπὶ τὴν Φιλίππου τελευτὴν ἔτη τριάκοντα πέντε· μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου μεταλλαγὴν ἔτη δώδεκα. Πάλιν ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ὀλυμπιάδος ἔνιοί φασιν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης κτίσιν συνάγεσθαι ἔτη εἴκοσι τέσσαρα. ἐντεῦθεν ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλέων ἀναίρεσιν, ὅτε ὕπατοι ἐγένοντο, ἐπὶ ἔτη διακόσια τεσσαράκοντα τρία, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς βασιλέων ἀναιρέσεως ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου τελευτὴν ἔτη ἑκατὸν ὀγδοήκοντα ἕξ.
English · Claude translation
Eratosthenes records the dates thus: from the capture of Troy to the return of the Heraclidae, eighty years; from then to the founding of Ionia, sixty years; after these, to the guardianship of Lycurgus, a hundred and fifty-nine years; to the year before the first Olympic games, a hundred and eight years; from that Olympiad to the crossing of Xerxes, two hundred and ninety-seven years; from which to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, forty-eight years; to its end and the defeat of the Athenians, twenty-seven years; to the battle at Leuctra, thirty-four years; after which to the death of Philip, thirty-five years; and after this to the death of Alexander, twelve years. Again, from the first Olympiad some say twenty-four years are reckoned to the founding of Rome; from then to the abolition of the kings, when consuls began, two hundred and forty-three years; and from the abolition of the kings to the death of Alexander, a hundred and eighty-six years.
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- Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text; wrong accent on the relative ἣν): μεθʼ ἥν ἐπὶ τὴν Φιλίππου → μεθʼ ἣν ἐπὶ τὴν Φιλίππου; τὴν βασιλέων ἀναίρεσιν. ὅτε ὕπατοι → τὴν βασιλέων ἀναίρεσιν, ὅτε ὕπατοι.
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.138 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/138/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.138 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/138/).
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