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Sosates
Sosates was an Alexandrian Jew who wrote epic poetry in Greek and flourished during the 2nd or 1st century BC. Dating Sosates is known from a single line in the ''Excerpta Latina Barbari'', an 8th-century AD Latin translation of a lost Greek chronograph of the 6th century. It is preserved in a single manuscript also of the 8th century. It reads, "At this same time Sosates, the Jewish Homer, flourished in Alexandria" (''Hisdem temporibus Sosates cognoscebatur ille Ebraicus Omirus in Alexandria''). It is one of five literary historical notices placed within a list of pharaohs that is correlated with a list of Jewish high priests. The correlation, however, is erroneous, the dates of the pharaohs not lining up with those of the priests. Sosates thus lived either during the time of the high priests Simon Thassi (142–135 BC) and John Hyrcanus (135–104) or during the reign of the Pharaoh Ptolemy XII (80–51). Shaye Cohen leans towards the former. Richard Burgess, on the other ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excerpta Latina Barbari
The ''Excerpta Latina Barbari'', also called the ''Chronographia Scaligeriana'', is a late antique historical compilation, originally composed in Greek in AD 527–539 but surviving only in a Latin translation from the late 8th century. The identities of the author/compiler of the original and of the translator unknown. Naming and genre The name ''Excerpta Latina Barbari'', by which the work is now conventionally known, is derived from the description of its first editor, Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609). He described it as "quite useful excerpts from the first chronological volume of Eusebius, Africanus, and others, translated into Latin by a senseless ignoramus who had no skill at Greek or Latin." The unflattering epithet ''Barbarus Scaligeri'' ('Scaliger's barbarian') may be given to the unidentified author or translator, but is also used as a name of the chronicle. The conventional name is misleading in that the work does not consist of excerpts. In 1579, the earliest re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |