Ephraim of Ainos

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Ephraim of Ainos (Greek: Εφραίμ) was a late Byzantine r chronicler .

Life

Little information is available about his life as he is only known from his own work. He is considered to be the authentic author of a Byzantine chronicle and lived in the city of Ainos from the late 13th to the first half of the 14th century, possibly in Thrace . There is evidence that he may have come from the clergy.

Name variants

Other name variants include: Ephraem Chronographus, Ephraem from Ainos, Ephraem Enii, Ephraem Ennii, Ephraemius Chronographus, Ephraim, Ephraimus from Ainos, Ephrem from Ainos, Ephrem Chroniqueur, Ephrem Poète Byzantin, Ephremus from Ainos, Epraem Ainos.

Chronica de rebus gestis imperatorum Romanorum et Graecorum usque ad annum 1216

The now edited Verschronik with 9588 twelve-syllables / trimimeters comes from the early 14th century and is incomplete and has only survived in one manuscript. It consists of an imperial chronicle and a list of patriarchs. It is believed that it began with Julius Caesar or Augustus . The surviving text begins with Gaius Caligula and ends with the reconquest of Constantinople by Michael VIII Palaiologos (August 15, 1261) and his entry into the city. Is described in detail in content only from the reign of Constantine I . He also treats the first iconoclastic period from 726–787 and the period from 1204 to 1261 in more detail. In contrast to the imperial chronicle, the list of patriarchs does not end until Patriarch Isaiah takes office in 1323. Important sources for the author were Johannes Zonaras , Niketas Choniates and Georgios Akropolites , while the only other - probably later - late Byzantine chronicle by Constantinos Manasseh apparently did not belong to his sources . It is considered reliable with regard to its own sources and probably only partially deviates from them due to the metric .

While it was considered poor quality in older research and was still mediocre in the 1970s, today it is considered linguistically and compositionally as a high-quality large chronicle of the late Byzantine period and thus as an exception in contemporary Byzantine literature. The problem of the few comprehensive chronicles is probably related to the decline and geographical losses in the palaeologists' time , resulting in a low need for stylization of the successes of earlier times.

literature

  • J. Hilberg: The Verification Technique of Ephremios. In: Vienna Studies. Volume 10, 1888, pp. 50-92.
  • Peter Schreiner : Ephraim. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume III, 1986, col. 2054.
  • Raimondo Tocci: To the Chronicle attributed to Konstantinos Akropolites. In: Albrecht Berger et al. (Ed.): Koinotaton Doron: The late Byzantium between powerlessness and cultural bloom (1204–1461). 2016, ISBN 9783110469851 , p. 197.
  • LM Hoffmann: Ephraim. In: The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Leiden / Boston 2010, 579-580.
  • Sergei Mariev : Byzantine Chronicle. In: Norbert H. Ott, Gerhard Wolf (Hrsg.): Handbook Chronicles of the Middle Ages. Berlin 2016, ISBN 9783110341713 , pp. 862, 863.
  • Herbert Hunger : The high-level profane literature of the Byzantines; Volume 1 Philosophy, Rhetoric, Epistolography, Historiography, Geography. In: Handbook of Ancient Studies. Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-01427-5 , pp. 478-480.
  • Odysseus Lampsides: Contribution to the acoustic metric in the Chronicle of Ephraem. In: Byzantion. Volume 35, pp. 482-494.
  • Odysseus Lampsides: Contributions to the Byzantine chronicler Ephraem and his chronicle. Athens 1971.
  • Ruth J. Macrides: Ephraim. In: The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780195187922 .

expenditure

  • Odysseus Lampsides (Ed.): Ephraem Aenii Historia Chronica. Athens 1990 (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 27).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Herbert Hunger: The high-level profane literature of the Byzantines; Volume 1 Philosophy, Rhetoric, Epistolography, Historiography, Geography. In: Handbook of Ancient Studies. Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-01427-5 , p. 478.
  2. ↑ a b c Sergei Mariev: Byzantine Chronicle. In: Norbert H. Ott, Gerhard Wolf (Hrsg.): Handbook Chronicles of the Middle Ages. Berlin 2016, ISBN 9783110341713 , pp. 862, 863.
  3. ↑ ALCUIN | Scholastic Information Center. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Ruth J. Macrides: Ephraim. In: The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780195187922 .
  5. ^ Herbert Hunger: The high-level profane literature of the Byzantines; Volume 1 Philosophy, Rhetoric, Epistolography, Historiography, Geography. In: Handbook of Ancient Studies. Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-01427-5 , pp. 478-480, p. 480.
  6. ^ Raimondo Tocci: To the Chronicle attributed to Konstantinos Akropolites. In: Albrecht Berger et al. (Ed.): Koinotaton Doron: The late Byzantium between powerlessness and cultural bloom (1204–1461). 2016, ISBN 9783110469851 , p. 197.
personal data
SURNAME Ephraim of Ainos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ᾽Εφραίμ (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century