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The ‘List of Thalassocracies’ in Eusebius: a Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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Mr. Fotheringham's paper, if I understand it rightly, divides itself into three parts. He corrects certain errors in my tabular statement of the evidence, and in my commentary on it; he criticizes my suggestion that the ‘List of Thalassocracies’ may represent a fifth-century document; and he reconstructs from materials comprised wholly in the existing texts of Eusebius' work an outline of the Eusebian view of the ‘List,’ as he understands it; the gist of which is that he thinks that Eusebius not merely incorporated in his Canones the names of all the states contained in the ‘List,’ but also intended to space the thalassocracies according to the numerals contained in the Excerpt. From this he infers that, where the numerals in the Excerpt are lost, they may safely be restored from the intervals indicated in the Canones; and from this, finally, (1) that the Excerpt was not mutilated when Eusebius incorporated it in his Chronographia, and (2) that it represented, in its missing section at all events, the same chronological scheme as underlies the rest of Eusebius' work, and not, as I had been led to suggest, a different, earlier, and more accurate system.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1907

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References

1 The ‘Tyrian’ date for Carthage, quoted from Josephus, , c. Ap. i. 17, 18Google Scholar.

2 Hdt. ii. 178.

3 But compare his discussion of the significance of red ink (p. 81) with his treatment of the Pelasgic thalassocracy (p. 83), which seems to proceed on the opposite hypothesis.

4 Note meanwhile that we have been dealing here with only one out of a number of dates for the foundation of Carthage, ranging from 1042 B.C. (Jerome: 1038 B.C. Arm.) to 1013 B.C. (Jerome 1015 B.C. Arm.) and 853 B.C. (Jerome: 850 B.C. Arm.): and that the date for which Mr. Fotheringham cites Josephus does not seem to appear in the Canones at all.