Miscellanies 1.21.139
Summary: The chronology is brought down to the death of the emperor Commodus (AD 192), with the differing reckonings of the historians.
Greek text · Stählin 2:86
ἐντεῦθεν ἐπὶ τὴν Αὐγούστου νίκην, ὅτε Ἀντώνιος ἀπέσφαξεν ἑαυτὸν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ, ἔτη διακόσια ἐνενήκοντα τέσσαρα, ὅτε ὑπάτευεν Αὔγουστος τὸ τέταρτον. ἀφʼ οὗ χρόνου ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα, ὃν ἔθηκε Δομετιανὸς ἐν Ῥώμῃ, ἔτη ἑκατὸν δεκατέσσαρα, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ πρώτου ἀγῶνος ἐπὶ τὴν Κομόδου τελευτὴν ἔτη ἑκατὸν ἕνδεκα. Εἰσὶ δὲ οἳ ἀπὸ Κέκροπος μὲν ἐπὶ Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Μακεδόνα συνάγουσιν ἔτη χίλια † ὀκτακόσια εἴκοσι ὀκτώ, ἀπὸ δὲ Δημοφῶντος χίλια διακόσια πεντήκοντα, καὶ ἀπὸ Τροίας ἁλώσεως ἐπὶ τὴν Ἡρακλειδῶν κάθοδον ἔτη ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι ἢ ἑκατὸν ὀγδοήκοντα. ἀπὸ τούτου ἐπὶ Εὐαίνετον ἄρχοντα, ἐφʼ οὗ φασιν Ἀλέξανδρον εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν διαβῆναι, ὡς μὲν Φανίας ἔτη ἑπτακόσια δεκαπέντε, ὡς δὲ Ἔφορος ἑπτακόσια τριάκοντα πέντε, ὡς δὲ Τίμαιος καὶ Κλείταρχος ὀκτακόσια εἴκοσι, ὡς δὲ Ἐρατοσθένης ἑπτακόσια ἑβδομήκοντα τέσσαρα, ὡς δὲ Δοῦρις ἀπὸ Τροίας ἁλώσεως ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου εἰς Ἀσίαν διάβασιν ἔτη χίλια. ἐντεῦθεν ἐπὶ † Εὐαίνετον τὸν Ἀθήνησιν ἄρχοντα, ἐφʼ οὗ θνῄσκει Ἀλέξανδρος, ἔτη ια΄. ἐντεῦθεν ἐπὶ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν Γερμανικοῦ Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος ἔτη τριακόσια ἑξήκοντα πέντε, ἀφʼ οὗ χρόνου δῆλα γίνεται καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τὴν Κομόδου τελευτὴν ἔτη ὅσα γε συνάγεται.
English · Claude translation
From then to the victory of Augustus, when Antony killed himself at Alexandria, two hundred and ninety-four years, when Augustus was consul for the fourth time. From that time to the games that Domitian founded at Rome, a hundred and fourteen years; and from the first of those games to the death of Commodus, a hundred and eleven years. There are some who reckon from Cecrops to Alexander the Macedonian one thousand … eight hundred and twenty-eight years; from Demophon one thousand two hundred and fifty; and from the capture of Troy to the return of the Heraclidae a hundred and twenty or a hundred and eighty years. From this to the archonship of Euaenetus, in which they say Alexander crossed into Asia, according to Phanias seven hundred and fifteen years, according to Ephorus seven hundred and thirty-five, according to Timaeus and Clitarchus eight hundred and twenty, according to Eratosthenes seven hundred and seventy-four, and according to Duris, from the capture of Troy to Alexander's crossing into Asia, a thousand years. From then to … Euaenetus, archon at Athens, in whose time Alexander died, eleven years. From then to the reign of Germanicus Claudius Caesar, three hundred and sixty-five years; from which time the years that are reckoned to the death of Commodus are also clear.
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- Commodus died on 31 December 192, which dates the writing of the Stromata after that time. The text is corrupt in two places (daggers).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative οἳ; wrong accent on the relative ὃν): ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα, ὅν ἔθηκε → ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα, ὃν ἔθηκε; Εἰσὶ δὲ οἵ ἀπὸ Κέκροπος → Εἰσὶ δὲ οἳ ἀπὸ Κέκροπος.
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.139 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/139/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.139 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/139/).
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