E07964
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
Paschal Chronicle, s.a. 532
Καὶ ἑωρακότες ἑαυτοὺς βαλλομένους οἱ ὄχλοι, ἦλθον αὐτοὶ εἰς τὸv Ὀκτάγωνον τὸν ὄντα εἰς μέσον τῆς βασιλικῆς τῶν Γουναρίων καὶ τοῦ δημοσίου Ἐμβόλου τῆς Ῥηγίας. καὶ ἑωρακότες oἱ στρατιῶται ὅτι οὐκ ἠδύναντο εἰσελθεῖν, ἐπάνω αὐτῶν ἔβαλον πῦρ, καὶ ὑφῆψαν τὴν Ὀκτάγωνον, καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοῦ πυρὸς ἐκαύθη τὰ πέριξ τοῦ ἁγίου Θεοδώρου τῶν Σφωρακίου δίχα τοῦ σκευοφυλακίου τοῦ φούρνου τοῦ ἁγίου οἴκου. ὁ δὲ Ἔμβολος ὅλος τῶν ἀργυροπρατίων καὶ ὁ οἶκος Συμμάχου τοῦ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων ὀρδιναρίων καὶ ἡ ἁγία Ἀκυλῖνα ἕως τῆς καμάρας τοῦ ἄλλου Ἐμβόλου τοῦ φόρου Κωνσταντίνου ἐκαύθη.
'And when the crowds saw themselves being hit, they went into the Octagon which is between the Basilica of the Skindressers and the public portico of the Regia. And the soldiers, when they saw that they were unable to enter, threw fire down upon them, and set alight the Octagon, and as a result of this fire the region around St. Theodore in the quarter of Sphoracius was burnt, except for the oven [sacristy] of the holy church. But the entire portico of the
silversmiths, and the house of Symmachus, the former consul ordinarius, and St. Aquilina, as far as the arch of the other portico of the Forum of Constantine, was burnt.'
Text: Dindorf 1832, 622-3.
Translation: Whitby and Whitby 1989, 119-120.
Cult building - independent (church)
Source
The Chronicon Paschale (paschal or Easter chronicle) is a chronicle compiled at Constantinople in the first half of the 7th century. It covers events from the creation of the world up to the anonymous author's own time. The Chronicle probably concluded with the year 630 (see Whitby and Whitby 1989, xi), though the surviving text breaks off slightly earlier, in the entry for 628. The traditional name for the Chronicle originates from its introductory section, which discusses methods for calculating the date of Easter. The Chronicle survives thanks to a single manuscript, Vatican, Gr. 1941 (10th c.), on which all other surviving manuscripts depend. The only critical edition remains that of Ludwig Dindorf (1832).The chronicler uses multiple chronological systems to date events: Olympiads, consular years, indictions, and years from the Ascension, as well as using Roman, Greek, and sometimes Egyptian dates (see Whitby and Whitby 1989, x). Numerous literary sources are utilised for the period before the author's own time, including well-known historical sources such as Eusebius and John Malalas. We have not included entries for material in the Paschal Chronicle which simply reproduces material in earlier sources already entered in our database.
Discussion
For the churches mentioned in this entry, see Janin 1969, 17 and 152-3.Bibliography
Edition:Dindorf, L., Chronicon Paschale (Bonn, 1832).
Translation:
Whitby, M., and Whitby, M., Chronicon Paschale 284-628 AD (Translated Texts for Historians 7; Liverpool, 1989).
Further reading:
Janin, R., La géographie ecclésiastique de l'empire byzantin. I: Les églises et les monastères de la ville de Constantinople. (2nd ed.; Paris, 1969).
David Lambert
01/09/2020
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00480 | Theodore, soldier and martyr of Amaseia and Euchaita | Θεοδώρος | Certain | S01616 | Aquilina, martyr in Byblos under Diocletian | Ἀκυλῖνα | Certain |
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