What is "chronicon"

n. chronicle

The Chronicle (or Chronicon or Temporum liber, The Book of Times) was a universal chronicle, one of Jerome's earliest attempts at history. It was composed c. 380 in Constantinople; this is a translation into Latin of the chronological tables which compose the second part of the Chronicon of Eusebius, with a supplement covering the period from 325 to 379. Despite numerous errors taken from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work of universal history, if only for the example which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper of Aquitaine, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals. In conformity with the Chronicon of Eusebius (early 4th century), Jerome dated Creation to 5199 BC.

The Chronicle includes a chronology of the events of Greek mythology, based on the work of Hellenistic scholars such as Apollodorus, Diodorus Siculus, and Eusebius. While the earlier parts are obviously unhistorical, there may be scattered remnants of historical events of late Mycenean Greece from entries of the 12th century BC. (See the historicity of the Iliad. Notably, Jerome's date for the capture of Troy of 1183 BC corresponds remarkably well with the destruction layer of Troy VIIa, the main candidate for the historical inspiration of legendary Troy, dated to c. 1190 BC.) Homer himself is dated to 940 BC, while modern scholarship usually dates him after 800 BC.

The Chronicon or Chronicle ( Greek: Παντοδαπὴ ἱστορία Pantodape historia, " Universal history") was a work in two books by Eusebius of Caesarea. It seems to have been compiled in the early 4th century. It contained a world chronicle from Abraham until the vicennalia of Constantine I in A.D. 325. Book 1 contained sets of extracts from earlier writers; book 2 contained a technically innovative list of dates and events in tabular format.

The original Greek text is lost, although substantial quotations exist in later chronographers. Both books are mostly preserved in an Armenian translation. Book 2 is entirely preserved in the Latin translation by Jerome. Portions also exist in quotation in later Syriac writers such as the fragments by James of Edessa and, following him, Michael the Syrian.

The Chronicle as preserved extends to the year 325, and was written before the " Church History".

In historiography, a chronicon is a type of chronicle or annals. Examples are:

• Chronicon (Eusebius)
• Chronicon (Jerome)
• Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham
• Chronicon Burgense
• Chronicon Ambrosianum
• Chronicon Compostellanum
• Chronicon Gothanum
• Chronicon Helveticum
• Chronicon Holtzatiae
• Chronicon Iriense
• Chronicon Lethrense
• Chronicon Lusitanum
• Chronicon Paschale
• Chronicon Pictum
• Chronicon Roskildense
• Chronicon Salernitanum
• Chronicon Scotorum
• Chronicon complutense
• Chronicon terrae Prussiae