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IN THE chronicle of Malalas there are references to what are ostensibly two earthquakes at Antioch in the second and first centuries before Christ; and Justinus records another which presumably affected the city shortly before 69 B.C.' It is the purpose of this study to show that there is, in one of Malalas' accounts, evidence for at least one other earthquake, which he does not specifically mention. It will be found that this account reflects the mistaken identification of several disasters, and that the confusion apparently has some relation with the errors in Malalas' account of the sequence and chronology of the Seleucid kings. Examination of the ways in which this chronological confusion may have arisen will, accordingly, provide further information concerning Malalas' methods of work and the nature of his sources for the history of Antioch during the Seleucid and the Roman periods.2 One of the earthquakes which Malalas records is mentioned in his description of Agrippa's visit to Antioch in 15 B.c., in which he says that Agrippa -Exbo'toEv 700 7raXaLo iL7rKLOu T Ta x taTa, a7Ep EIXEV EK T7wV rp&'7v 4 oPo.3 The phrase iK Tc r~ 1p , 6COV 1 Speaking of the expulsion of Tigranes

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Author

Glanville Downey

Published

1938

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)