The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284-813

422 Pages·1997·108.24 MB·English

by  Theophanes the Confessor

The Chronicle of
Theophanes Confessor
Byzantine and Near Eastern History
AD 284-813
Translated with Introduction and Commentary by
CYRIL MANGO and ROGER SCOTT
with the assistance of Geoffrey Greatrex
CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD
1997
Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP
Preface
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and associated companies in (d. 818) is a major source for the history not only of the East Roman
Berlin Ibadan
or Byzantine Empire, but also for that of the Near East after the Arab
Oxford is a trade mark of Oxford University Press conquest. That is not to say that its value is uniform for the entire
Published in the United States period it covers, namely from AD 284/5 to 813. Roughly its first half
by Oxford University Press Inc., New York in terms of pages of text, from AD 2,84/5 t0 602, is based on sources
© Cyril Mango and Roger Scott 1997 that are, by and large, available to us in one form or another,
although occasionally Theophanes does yield items of information
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, that cannot be found elsewhere. From AD 602 to 813, however,
without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press. Theophanes is for us a primary source in the sense that the writings
Within the UK, exceptions are allowed in respect of any fair dealing for the
purpose of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted he utilized have been almost entirely lost.
under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, or in the case of The purpose of our work was to provide a faithful translation of
reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of the licences
issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning Theophanes as edited by C. de Boor (1883) with such annotation as
reproduction outside these terms and in other countries should be would facilitate its use by historians. To that end we have added a
sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press,
at the address above double apparatus, namely: (i) An apparatus fontium indicating,
whenever possible, the source used by Theophanes or, if such a
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
source has not survived, parallel passages in other texts that are
Data available
independent of Theophanes (i.e. are not derived from him); (ii) A set
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data of brief explanatory notes. It goes without saying that, given enough
The chronicle of Theophanes Confessor : Byzantine and Near Eastern
history, A.D. 284-813 / translated with introduction and commentary time and space, the latter could have been expanded tenfold, but it
by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott with the assistance of Geoffrey Greatrex was not our aim to provide an exhaustive commentary, which would
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Byzantine Empire—History—Isaurian dynasty. 717-811. have been almost tantamount to writing a history of the Byzantine
I. Mango, Cyril A. II. Scott, Roger. III. Greatrex, Geoffrey. Empire to AD 813. We can only hope that, armed with our text, the
IV. Title
DF581.T4813 1991 949.s'o2—dc20 96-18714 historian will not only know what Theophanes says, but will also be
ISBN o-r 9-822 s 68-7 in a position to evaluate the worth of his statements.
Our work has been more than fifteen years in the making, partly
13 579 -το 8642
because of other commitments borne by the two authors, partly
Typeset by Hope Services (Abingdon) Ltd.
because of the difficulty of conducting a collaboration across two
Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by
Bookcraft (Bath) Ltd;, Midsomer Norton oceans. For this delay we have paid the penalty of having been anti­
cipated by two partial translations into English, the first by
H. Turtledove, with elementary annotation, covering the period
602-813,! the second by A. R. Santoro, without any notes, confined
to 717-803.z Both are highly inaccurate.
The past fifteen years have also seen a steady flow of publications
devoted to various aspects of the Chronicle or to particular periods
for which it is an important source. We should name in the first
1 The Chronicle of Theophanes (Philadelphia, 1982).
1 Theophanes, Chionogiaphia (Gorham, Me., 1982).
V
Preface Preface
place the exhaustive commentary on the years 715-813 by Ilse Elizabeth Jeffreys, Margaret Mullett, and Michael Whitby. He is also
Rochow, omitting, however, all items of purely Near Eastern inter­ very grateful for facilities made available to him as an honorary
est.3 Two works by I. S. Cicurov also deserve mention. The first, Research Fellow at the Centre for Byzantine Studies at the
entitled Byzantine Historical Writings,4 consists of selected University of Birmingham and as a Fellow of Dumbarton Oaks,
passages of Theophanes and the Breviarium of the Patriarch Washington.
Nikephoros accompanied by a Russian translation and explanatory
notes. The second, The Place of the Chronographia of Theophanes
in the Early Byzantine Historiographie Tradition,5 attempts to
analyse the Chronicle as a work of literature with special reference
to the author's 'self-awareness', his attitude to prevailing conven­
tions of historical writing, and the ideal image of the emperor. We
cannot enter here into a discussion of the views expressed by the
Russian scholar, although we may be permitted to say that the
approach he has chosen appears to us inappropriate to a work that is
avowedly compilatory and non-literary. A stream of publications by
Professor Paul Speck of Berlin, concerned directly or indirectly with
Theophanes and by now amounting to several thousand pages, has
put us in a more difficult position. Professor Speck offers many inci­
sive observations, but these are intermingled with so much hypo­
thetical speculation that we decided, after some hesitation, to make
only occasional reference to his works. We have also omitted for rea­
sons of space much other bibliography which did not appear to us to
make any original contribution.
The division of our labour has been as follows: R.S. undertook to
translate and annotate roughly the first half of the Chronicle (AM
5777-6094), while CM. is responsible for AM 6095-6305 and for
Theophanes' 'Preface'. The Introduction is by CM. except for the
chronology of the Persian kings (III.2.1), the discussion of sources
relevant to the first half of the text (IV.2-9 and part of 14) and the
section entitled 'Treatment of Sources'. The List of Abbreviations,
Glossary and Index have been compiled by Dr Geoffrey Greatrex, to
whom we are also greatly indebted for editing our manuscript for the
press.
CM. would also like to thank Dr J. D. Howard-Johnston for advice
on the events of the reign of the emperor Herakleios, Drs R. Hoyland
and L. I. Conrad on matters relating to the Arabs, and, as always, his
wife.
R.S. would like to thank Oliver Nicholson in particular and also
Anthony Bryer, Brian Croke, Simon Franklin, Martine Henry,
3 Byzanz im S. Jahihundeit in der Sicht des Theophanes (Berlin, 1991).
4 Vizantijskie istoriceskie socinenija (Moscow, 1980).
5 Mesto 'Chronografii' Feofana ν rannevizantijskoj istoriograficeskoj tradicii in
the series DrevnejSie gosudarstva na territorii SSSR for 1981 (pub. Moscow, 1983].
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Contents
Conventions Adopted xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction xliii
Preface to Chronographia ι
Genealogy 3
Chronographia 5
Glossary 689
General Index 695
Index of Greek Words 744
Γ
Conventions Adopted in
the Present Publication
ι. Text
Words that have been added to the English translation for the sake
of clarity are placed in square brackets ([. . .]).
Words supplied by de Boor, mostly from the Latin translation by
Anastasius, are in angle brackets ((. . .)).
Words or passages rejected by de Boor are marked Γ. . Λ
Lacunae in the text are marked by an asterisk (*).
De Boor's pagination is indicated in the margin.
Passages that we consider to have been derived from Theophanes'
Oriental source (on which see Introduction, IV.13) are printed in
Avenir roman.
2. Chronological Rubrics
On the form of the rubrics, as they are given in the manuscripts and
in de Boor's edition, see Introduction, III.
i. Full Rubrics:
We have used the abbreviation AM instead of 'Year of the World' and
added in square brackets the corresponding AD date. Both are given
in bold type. It should be understood that the AD date is the one the­
oretically equivalent to the AM according to the system of compu­
tation used by Theophanes and need not be the correct date for the
events described.
ii. Abbreviated Rubrics:
We have inserted: [a] The AM and AD dates in square brackets; (b)The
name of the ruler and bishop before the numeral, thus: 'Diocletian,
2nd year'. Strictly speaking, the name ought to have been also placed
in square brackets, but that would have created such a plethora of
brackets that we have taken the liberty of omitting them.
Whenever a new ruler or bishop is appointed, he is introduced in the
manuscripts by the following formula (taking AM 5786 as an example):
Marcellinus, bishop of Rome, 2 years
Peter the Martyr, bishop of Alexandria, 11 years,
followed by the usual string of numerals, namely 10 (10th year of
Diocletian), 6 (6th year of Ouarraches), 1 (ist year of Marcellinus), 22
χι
Conventions Adopted in the Present Publication
(22nd year of Hymenaios), 1 (ist year of Peter the Martyr), 11 (nth
Abbreviations
year of Tyrannos).
For the sake of greater clarity we have combined the name and
length of tenure of the new incumbent with the ordinal number of
the year that is applicable to him, instead of disjoining them as the
manuscripts do. 1. Periodicals, reference books, short abbreviations
3. Proper Names, Titles, and Technical Terms AASS Acta Sanctorum
Without aiming at complete consistency, which would have been ABAW Abhandlungen der Bayerischen
impossible to achieve without introducing a great many bizarre Akademie der Wissenschaften
forms, we have adopted for proper names the following guidelines: ABSA Annual of the British School at
Athens
Whenever a familiar English equivalent exists, that has been used
ACO Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum,
(e.g. Diocletian, George, John, Justinian, Marcian, etc.).
ed. E. Schwartz and J. Straub (Berlin,
Less familiar Greek as well as foreign names have been transliter­
1914-83)
ated (β = b, κ = k, υ = y, αι = ai, ei = ei, οι = oi, ου = ou). In the case of
foreign names their 'correct' or accepted form is given in the Index. AG Anno Graecorum (i.e. of the Seleucid
era, from 1 Oct. 312 BC)
Less familiar names of Latin derivation are given in Latin spelling
AH Anno Hegirae (i.e. of the Islamic era)
(thus Germanus rather than Germanos).
AIPHOS Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et
The same principles have been applied to titles and technical
d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves
terms. Except such as are commonly used in an Anglicized form (e.g.
AJAH American Journal of Ancient History
notary, patrician, tribune), those of Latin origin are given in Latin
AnatSt Anatolian Studies
spelling (e.g. a secretis, but protoasekretis, this being a bastard
AnBoll Analecta Bollandiana
Greek formation; candidatus, nobilissimus, etc.), while those of
BAR British Archaeological Reports
Greek origin are transliterated.
BCH Bulletin de Correspondance Hellé
In a few cases Theophanes uses two different forms to designate
nique
the same person, e.g. Sarbarazas and Sarbaros = Sahrvaraz. We have
BHG Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca,
retained both so as not to disguise the author's inconsistency.
3rd edn., ed. F. Halkin, Subsidia
The Greek ephitet 'the great' applied to a person may mean just
Hagiographica, 8a (Brussels, 1957)
that, or it may mean 'the elder' or 'the first'. For emperors we have
BIRC Bulletin de l'Institut russe de
translated it as 'the elder' apart from Constantine I and on two occa­
Constantinople ( = IRAIK)
sions for Theodosios I (AM 5998,6232). For others we have translated
BMGS Byzantine and Modem Greek Studies
it as 'the Great'.
BNJ Byzantinisch-neugriechische
4. Annotation Jahrbücher
BS1 Byzantinoslavica
This takes a double form:
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
Notes designated by an arabic numeral are explanatory.
African Studies
Those designated by a lower case letter constitute the apparatus
Byz Byzantion
fontium. Whenever it has been possible to delimit a passage that has
ByzF Byzantinische Forschungen
either been borrowed from a known source or exists in a comparable
BZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift
form in another text, the passage in question has been placed between
dB C de Boor
vertical lines (II) and followed by the reference a, b, c, etc. The indica­
CC Corpus Christianorum
tion 'Cf.' refers to parallel passages. Derivative parallels of later date
CFHB Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae
have not been quoted unless they have some independent value.
Xll Xlll
Abbreviations Abbreviations
CHEIA The Cambridge History of Early Inner HTR Harvard Theological Review
Asia, ed. D. Sinor (Cambridge, 1990) H US Harvard Ukrainian Studies
CMH The Cambridge Medieval History IE] Israel Exploration Journal
CQ Classical Quarterly ind. Indiction
CR Classical Review IRAIK Izvestija Russkogo Archeologitz-
CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum skogo Instituta ν Konstantinopole
Orientalium JA Journal Asiatique
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum J AC Jahrbuch für Antike und Christen
Latinorum tum
CSHB Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzan- JDAI Jahrbuch des deutschen archäologis
tinae chen Instituts
DChAE AeXriov τής Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολ­ JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
ογικής Εταιρείας JOB Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzan-
DHGE Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géogra tinistik
phie ecclésiastiques JOB G Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzan
DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers tinischen Gesellschaft
DO Seals Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at JQR Jewish Quarterly Review
Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg JRGS Journal of the Royal Geographical
Museum of Art, ed. J. Nesbitt and N. Society
Oikonomides ( Washington, D C, 19 91 - ) JRS Journal of Roman Studies
DSp Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique JSav Journal des Savants
et mystique JTS Journal of Theological Studies
DTC Dictionnaire de théologie catholique ΚΕΦΣ Ό iv Κωνσταντινονττόλ^ι Ελληνικός
ΕΕΒΣ Έττ€τηρις τής Εταιρείας Βυζαντινών Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος
Σπονδών LSJ Η. G. Liddell and R. Scott, rev. H. S.
EHR English Historical Review Jones and R. McKenzie, A
EP Encyclopaedia of Islam, éd. M. T. Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford, 1968)
Houtsma et al, 4 vols. (Leiden and MBM Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia
London, 1913-34) MGHAA Monumenta Germaniae Historica,
EI* Encyclopaedia of Islam, new edn., ed. Auctores Antiquissimi
H. A. R. Gibb et al. (Leiden and MGH SS Monumenta Germaniae Historica,
London, i960- ) Scriptores
EO Echos d'Orient OCP Orientalia Christiana Periodica
FCH R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary ODB Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed.
Classicising Historians of the Later A. Kazhdan (Oxford, 1991)
Roman Empire, 2 vols. (Liverpool, OrChr Oriens Christianus
1981-3) PG Patrologia Graeca
FHG Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, PL Patrologia Latina
vol. iv, ed. C. Müller (Paris, 1851), vol. PLRE Prosopography of the Later Roman
v, ed. C. Müller (Paris, 1870) Empire, ed.J. Martindale et al. 3 vols.
GRBS Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies (Cambridge, 1971-92)
HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical PO Patrologia Orientalis
Philology PS Patrologia Syriaca
XIV xv
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REA Revue des Etudes Anciennes CFHB (Berlin, 1967)
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REB Revue des Etudes Byzantines Ravennatis, ed. O. Holder-Egger,
REG Revue des Études Grecques MGH Scr. rer. Lang. 263-391
RendLincei Rendiconti dell'Accademia Nazionale Alex. Mon. Alexander Monachus, De venerandae
dei Lincei crucis inventione, PG 87/3: 4015 ff.
RevNum Revue Numismatique Ambrose, De ob. Val. Ambrose, De obitu Valentiniani
RhM Rheinisches Museum für Philologie Iunioris in Sancti Ambrosii Opera,
RIDA Revue internationale des droits de vol. vii, ed. O. Faller (Vienna, 1955),
l'antiquité CSEL 73, 327-67
ROC Revue de l'Orient Chrétien Amm. Marc. Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum ges-
RSBN Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoel- tarum libri quae supersunt, ed. and tr.
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SRM Scriptores Rerum Merowingicarum Anast. Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Chrono
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TAPA Transactions and Proceedings of the Anast. Sin. Sermo III Anastasius Sinaita, Sermones duo in
American Philological Association Constitutionen! hominis secundum
TIB Tabula Imperii Byzantini imaginem dei, ed. K. H. Uthemann,
TM Travaux et Mémoires, Centre de CC ser. gr. 12 (Turnhout and Louvain,
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