PARIAN CHRONICLE (Chronicon or Marmor Parium)

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PARIAN CHRONICLE (Chronicon or Marmor Parium) , a marble tablet found in the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

of Paros in 1627, now among the Arundel

Marbles

MARBLES

at Oxford. It originally embraced an outline of Greek history from the reign cf Cecrops, legendary king of Athens, down to the archonship of Diognetus at Athens (264 B.C.). The Chronicle seems to have been set up by a private person, but, as the opening of the inscription has perished, we do not know the occasion or motives which prompted the step. The author of the Chronicle has given much attention to the festivals, and to poetry and music; thus he has recorded the

dates

DATES

of the

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

of festivals, of the introduction of various kinds of poetry, the births and deaths of the poets, and their victories in contests of poetical skill. On the other hand, important political and military events are often entirely omitted; thus the return of the Heraclidae, Lycurgus, the wars of

Messene

MESSENE

, Draco, Solon,

Cleisthenes

CLEISTHENES

, Pericles, the Peloponnesian War and the Thirty Tyrants are not even mentioned. The years are reckoned backwards from the archonship of Diognetus, and the

dates

DATES

are further specified by the kings and archons of Athens. The reckoning by Olympiads is not employed. The Chronicle consists of 93 lines, written chiefly in the Attic dialect.
The Parian Chronicle (first published by Selden in 1628) is printed by A. Bockh in the Corpus inscriptionum graecorum, vol. ii., No. 2374, and by C. W. Muller in the Fragmenta historicorum graecorum, vol. i. ; there are

separate

SEPARATE

editions by J. Flach (1883) and F. Jacoby (1904). A New fragment was discovered in 1897, bringing the Chronicle down to the year 299 (ed. Crispi and Wilhelm in Mittheilungen des archaeologischen Instituts, athenische Abtheilung, vol. xxii., 1897). See also " Notes on the Text of the Parian Marble " and

review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

of Jacoby's edition by J. A. R. Munro in Classical

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

(March and October 1901 and June 1905).

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