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Cesti - The Extant Fragments (Hardcover)
Iulius Africanus; Edited by Martin Wallraff, Carlo Scardino, Laura Mecella, Christophe Jean-Daniel Guignard; Translated by …
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Iulius Africanus (3rd cent.) is a fascinating writer in a period of
transition. Widely travelled, he belongs to the intellectual elite
of the second sophistic. His two main works present a similar
encyclopedic approach, but very different contents. He can be
considered the "father of Christian chronography", since he
authored the first Christian world chronicle (Chronographiae).
However, he also wrote a comprehensive and multifaceted manual of
many fields of knowledge, where the religious character is open to
debate. The preserved fragments of the Cesti treat military,
technical, medical and many other topics. These texts are presented
in an entirely new critical edition. The transmission of the texts
as well as questions of authenticity are highly complex. Compared
to the previous edition (Vieillefond 1970), considerable progress
has been reached in terms of both, quantity and quality of the
material. Hitherto unknown texts have been included, and in the
case of dubious authorship all necessary information is provided
for a realistic picture of the transmission. In the introduction,
all relevant channels of transmission are discussed. The edition is
accompanied by notes and a new English translation.
Iulius Africanus has rightly been called the "Father of Christian
Chronography". His world chronicle is one of the few works of
Christian literature pioneering a new genre. Late Antiquity and the
Middle Ages mainly articulated their reflection on history in the
form of the world chronicle. The work has not been preserved in its
entirety; the extant fragments have to be laboriously pieced
together from the works of later authors. To date, there has not
been a critical edition of this material, and the edition in use
today dates back nearly 200 years (J.M. Routh 1814). This new
edition in the GCS series closes an old gap in the programme of
this series - and at the same time marks a new beginning, because
this is the first edition ever in this series to be published with
an English translation. The edition establishes a completely new
foundation for our knowledge of Early Christian historical
thinking, and in addition provides an important component in our
understanding of an important epoch, the "Imperial Crisis" of the
3rd century, in which the new world of Late Antiquity began to
develop out of the Hellenic-Roman heritage.
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