Phlegon of Tralles - Wikipedia Phlegon of Tralles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Phlegon of Tralles" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Phlegon of Tralles Born Early second century AD Tralles, Roman Empire (modern-day Turkey) Died Late second century AD unknown Occupation Chronicler and historian Notable works Olympiads, On Marvels, On Long-Lived Persons, Phlegon of Tralles (Ancient Greek: Φλέγων ὁ Τραλλιανός) was a Greek writer and freedman of the emperor Hadrian, who lived in the 2nd century AD. Contents 1 Works 2 Reference to Jesus 3 References 4 Bibliography 5 External links Works[edit] His chief work was the Olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 BC to AD 137), of which several chapters are preserved in Eusebius' Chronicle, Photius and George Syncellus. Two short works by him are extant. On Marvels consists of "anecdotes culled from sources as diverse as the Greek poet Hesiod and the Roman natural historian Pliny the Elder. Each... recounts a fantastical or paranormal event."[1] On Long-Lived Persons contains a list of Italians who had passed the age of 100, taken from the censuses of the Roman Empire. Other works ascribed to Phlegon in the Suda are a description of Sicily, a work on the Roman festivals in three books, and a topography of Rome: "Phlegon of Tralles, freedman of Augustus Caesar, but some say of Hadrian: historian. He wrote Olympiads in 16 books. Up to the 229th Olympiad they contain what was done everywhere. And these in 8 books: Description of Sicily; On long-lived and marvelous persons, On the feasts of the Romans 3 books, On the places in Rome and by what names they are called, Epitome of Olympic victors in 2 books, and other things. "Of this Phlegon, as Philostorgius says, to relate fully in detail what befell with the Jews, while Phlegon and Dio mentioned [these events] briefly and made them an appendix to their own narrative. Since this man does not exhibit at all prudently those who would lead to piety and other virtues, as those others do not either. Josephus, on the contrary, is like one who fears and takes care not to offend the [sc.pagan] Greeks."[clarification needed] Reference to Jesus[edit] Origen of Alexandria (182-254 AD), in Against Celsus (Book II, Chap. XIV), wrote that Phlegon, in his "Chronicles", mentions Jesus: "Now Phlegon, in the thirteenth or fourteenth book, I think, of his Chronicles, not only ascribed to Jesus a knowledge of future events (although falling into confusion about some things which refer to Peter, as if they referred to Jesus), but also testified that the result corresponded to His predictions." He referred to a description by Phlegon of an eclipse accompanied by earthquakes during the reign of Tiberius: that there was "the greatest eclipse of the sun" and that "it became night in the sixth hour of the day [i. e., noon] so that stars even appeared in the heavens. There was a great earthquake in Bithynia, and many things were overturned in Nicaea." [2] References[edit] ^ Emma Southon: "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". History Today, June 2018, p. 15. ^ Roberts, Donaldson & Coxe (1896), Volume IV, "Contra Celsum", Book II, chapter 14,23,59 p. 441. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFRobertsDonaldsonCoxe1896 (help)  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Phlegon". Encyclopædia Britannica. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 447. Bibliography[edit] Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller, Frag. hist. graec., iii O Keller, Rerum naturalium scriptores, i. (1877) H Diels, "Phlegons Androgynenorakel" in Sibyllinische Bücher (1890). Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels. Translated with an introduction and commentary by William Hansen. University of Exeter Press (1996) pp.xvi + 215. Review. External links[edit] Photius, "Bibliotheca" codex 97 - the entry on Phlegon's Chronicles and List of Olympic Victors. The Suda entry for Phlegon - Greek, English and commentary. Fragments of Phlegon on the passion phenomena - Greek/Latin and English. William Smith, "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology" (1870) v. 3, page 336 - bitmap and scanned text with list of works Authority control BIBSYS: 95004129 BNE: XX1653510 BNF: cb135389114 (data) CiNii: DA14400007 GND: 119070634 ISNI: 0000 0001 1586 2613 LCCN: no97040169 NLG: 153935 NSK: 000383554 NTA: 069888779 RERO: 02-A000130298 SELIBR: 83778 SUDOC: 050693646 VcBA: 495/84186 VIAF: 2633773 WorldCat Identities: lccn-no97040169 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phlegon_of_Tralles&oldid=955150412" Categories: Ancient Greek writers 2nd-century Greek people 2nd-century Romans 2nd-century writers Historians from Roman Anatolia Emperor's slaves and freedmen Ancient Olympic Games People from Tralles Hidden categories: Harv and Sfn no-target errors Articles needing additional references from April 2019 All articles needing additional references Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text Wikipedia articles needing clarification from May 2013 Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLG identifiers Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Asturianu Català Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Français Galego Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Latina Magyar Nederlands Polski Português Русский Slovenčina Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 6 May 2020, at 06:31 (UTC). 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