Pseudo-Julios Polydeukes

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Several copies of a Byzantine chronicle from the 10th century were brought into circulation in the 16th century under the author's name " Julius Pollux " or " Ioulios Polydeukes ". They were created by Andreas Darmarios , a Venetian of Greek origin who ran a professional copier workshop and distributed his copies in Italy, Spain and Germany. He copied the aforementioned chronicle twice in Madrid between 1575 and 1578, and more were later made of these copies. The reason for the author's name was obviously that in the underlying manuscript on the anonymous Byzantine chronicle - to which he named " Historia physike " - the Onomasticon desIulius Pollux followed and Darmarios also put his author's name in front of the chronicle.

At the end of the 18th century the work was printed in two editions, in 1779 and 1795 in Bologna on the basis of the manuscript to which Darmarios' copies also go back, the first edition still without a statement of the author; and 1792 in Munich and Leipzig under the names of Ioulios Polydeukes and Julius Pollux based on a copy of Darmarios'. The name forgery, which was already discussed by French scholars in the 17th century, was finally recorded in an essay in 1892 (see literature). The author of the chronicle has since been called " Pseudo-Julios Polydeukes ".

The chronicle itself is a work related to the logothet chronicle . Until Iulius Caesar it follows their presentation in an early version, then it is based on church writers like Eusebios of Caesarea , so that overall it is a little original work.

literature

  • Theodor Preger : The chronicler Julios Polydeukes. A fake title by Andreas Darmarios , in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 1 (1892), pp. 50–54.
  • Otto Kresten : Andreas Darmarios and the handwritten tradition of the pseudo-Julios Polydeukes , in: Yearbook of Austrian Byzantine Studies 18 (1969), pp. 137-165.
  • Staffan Wahlgren: Original and archetype: On the coming into being and transformation of a Byzantine world chronicle (Pseudo-Polydeukes / Symeon Logothetes) , in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96 (2003), pp. 269-277.

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