{"id":15641,"date":"2016-03-01T21:37:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=15641"},"modified":"2016-03-01T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:37:04","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-17-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2016\/03\/01\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-17-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 17 (part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reign of Justinian continues, and after him Justin II.\u00a0 We have two\u00a0extracts from the lost Sassanid Persian chronicle that Eutychius has in Arabic translation.\u00a0 The Persian chronicler was plainly very well-disposed towards the next\u00a0Sassanid Persian\u00a0king, An\u016bshirw\u0101n.<\/em><\/p>\n

13. Qab\u0101d died.The years when Qab\u0101d reigned, together with the years in which R\u0101m\u0101sf reigned, were around forty.\u00a0 After him reigned his son Kisra, son of Qab\u0101d, called An\u016bshirw\u0101n.\u00a0 He reigned\u00a0for forty-seven\u00a0years and six months.\u00a0 This happened in the fourth year of the reign of Justinian, king of Rum.\u00a0 Kisra ordered\u00a0that the\u00a0leaders of the Mazdeans should be expelled from his realm.\u00a0 He confiscated the goods, which\u00a0they had\u00a0illegally seized, and returned them to their owners, preserving for himself the goods of those who had no heirs,\u00a0and repaired what they had damaged and rebuilt what had been destroyed.\u00a0 He interested himself\u00a0in those whose houses and farms had beene\u00a0extorted from them,\u00a0and gave them back their own.\u00a0 To those who had taken a woman by force he ordered them give her twice her dowry, unless, being fully satisfied,\u00a0he took\u00a0her as his wife.\u00a0 And if she had a husband, he\u00a0was to give him the equivalent of\u00a0the dowry\u00a0that the\u00a0woman had at the time of the wedding.\u00a0 If necessary he made him marry the woman.\u00a0 What prompted him to set aside the punishment for those who had been guilty of crimes was the fact that he had at heart the\u00a0good of the people and he did not like to treat\u00a0anyone in a way that rendered them\u00a0hostile.\u00a0 He ordered a census of the families of nobles and aristocrats who, having lost those who supported them, had fallen into poverty; gave to their orphans and their widows what they needed,\u00a0\u00a0 to teach their children the arts for which they were fit and to give their daughters in\u00a0marriage to rich people\u00a0equal to\u00a0them.\u00a0 Also he\u00a0showed interest in houses and land whose owners were no longer able to maintain them, for lack of means, and dug irrigation canals and waterways, so as to make the water flow\u00a0in the rivers, and provided their owners the money needed to purchase seeds and livestock.\u00a0 He went\u00a0visiting the villages that had been destroyed and built formidable fortresses.\u00a0 Then he chose ministers, prefects and judges and transferred them into the provinces.\u00a0 He\u00a0published the books of Azdash\u012br which contained the teachings which had inspired his own conduct, and urged the people to do the same, sending letters in this regard into all the provinces.\u00a0 In the\u00a0ninth year of his reign, in the twelfth year of the reign of Justinian, king of Rum, he went to Antioch at the head of his soldiers.\u00a0 At\u00a0Antioch he found the soldiers of Justinian, king of the Rum.\u00a0 He fought against them and captured the city.\u00a0 He then ordered\u00a0a\u00a0map of\u00a0the city to be made, respecting the measure, the number of dwellings, in height and depth, of the streets and all that was there.\u00a0 He sent a copy to his lieutenant of Ctesiphon, and ordered him to build him a city of the same shape and construction so that the eye would not notice any difference between it and Antioch.\u00a0 The city was built, called ar-R\u016bmiyah, and he transfered the population of Antioch to live there.\u00a0 When they arrived and passed the gate of the city, each family found a house very similar to the one left, and they all had the feeling of simply being returned to the Antioch that\u00a0they had left.<\/p>\n

14. In the thirtieth year of the reign of Justinian, king of Rum, there was made patriarch of Rome Pelagius.\u00a0 He held the office for four years and died.\u00a0 In the thirty-fifth year of his reign there was made patriarch of Rome, John.\u00a0 He held the office for twelve years and died.\u00a0 In the thirtieth year of his\u00a0reign there\u00a0was made patriarch of Antioch Anastasius the Great.\u00a0 He had held the seat for six years when the inhabitants of Antioch accused him of fornication.\u00a0 Anastasius fled, he took his clothes that he used to wear to celebrate mass and buried them.\u00a0 In disguise he went to Jerusalem and took refuge in the Church of the Resurrection, where he had the task of lighting the candlesticks.\u00a0 He remained as sacristan at the Church of the Resurrection, with the task of lighting the candlesticks, for twenty-four years, and no one ever knew\u00a0that he\u00a0was a patriarch.\u00a0 In\u00a0his place there was made Patriarch of Antioch Gregory.\u00a0 He held the\u00a0office for twenty-four years and died.\u00a0 In the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Justinian\u00a0there was made patriarch of Jerusalem, Macarius II.\u00a0 He held the office for four years and died.\u00a0 In the thirty-third year of his reign\u00a0there was made Patriarch of Jerusalem John.\u00a0 He held the office for ten years and he died.\u00a0 In twenty-eighth year of his reign he was told that Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople, had denied the truth and had become a Jacobite.\u00a0 He\u00a0deposed him, and made\u00a0patriarch of Constantinople, in\u00a0his place, John.\u00a0 He held the office for seven years and died.\u00a0 After\u00a0Eutychius, the patriarch of Constantinople who had been removed, the ministers and generals of the king were commissioned to plead his case to the king, and to ask him to reinstate him in his office, because what had been said about him were\u00a0simply lies.\u00a0 The king then reinstated him in the patriarchal\u00a0office\u00a0and he\u00a0ruled for four years until he died.\u00a0 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign there was\u00a0made patriarch\u00a0of Constantinople John.\u00a0 He held the office for thirteen years and died.\u00a0 Also\u00a0Apollinaris, Patriarch of Alexandria, was patriarch for nineteen years and died.\u00a0 In his thirteenth year in office he\u00a0had a\u00a0place on the Fifth Council.\u00a0 After him there was made patriarch of Alexandria John.\u00a0 He\u00a0was a Manichaean.\u00a0 He held the office for three years and died.\u00a0 In the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Justinian there was made patriarch of Alexandria Peter. He was a Jacobite.\u00a0 He held the\u00a0office for two years and died.\u00a0 King Justinian was of the Orthodox faith, loving the good, hater of the doctrine of the Jacobites and a tenacious advocate of the doctrine of the Melkites.<\/p>\n

15. The king Justinian died after a reign of thirty-nine years.\u00a0 After him reigned\u00a0over Rum, for thirteen years, Justin the Younger.\u00a0 This happened in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Kisra, son of Qab\u0101d, king of the Persians.\u00a0 Justin the Younger was also of the Orthodox faith, a champion of good, hater of the doctrine of the Jacobites and Nestorians and lover of the doctrine of the Melkites.\u00a0 In the first year of his reign\u00a0there was made patriarch of Alexandria Athanasius.\u00a0 He\u00a0was a Manichaean.\u00a0 He held the office for five years and he died.\u00a0 In the sixth year of his reign\u00a0there was made patriarch of Alexandria John the Just.\u00a0 He held the office for eleven years and died.\u00a0 In the eighth year of his reign there was made patriarch of Rome Benedict.\u00a0 He held the office for four years and died.\u00a0 In the twelfth year of his reign there was made patriarch of Rome Pelagius.\u00a0 He held the office for six years and died.<\/p>\n

16. As for Kisra, son of Qab\u0101d, king of the Persians, called An\u016bshirw\u0101n, he moved with\u00a0his troops against the Hay\u0101tilah to avenge his grandfather Firuz.\u00a0 As he was\u00a0already related by marriage to the Khaqan, Kisra, son of Qab\u0101d, wrote him a letter to inform him of his coming, and to\u00a0tell him that he would\u00a0march\u00a0over the Hay\u0101tilah territory before he arrived.\u00a0 Then\u00a0he swooped down on\u00a0him and\u00a0the king\u00a0killed him.\u00a0 Balkh and the lands of Khurasan who were\u00a0around it went over\u00a0to An\u016bshirw\u0101n, who encamped his hosts in Fargh\u0101nah, and married the daughter of the Great Khaqan.\u00a0 In Khurasan, Sayf b. Du Yazan the Himyarite, head of the Yemeni population, presented himself to him, and asked for\u00a0help against the Abyssinians.\u00a0 He sent with him one of his generals at the head of an army from Deylaman, and they occupied Yemen and settled there.\u00a0 Wherever he sent his troops Anushirw\u0101n obtained huge success and victories\u00a0which rendered the condition of his subjects \u00a0prosperous.\u00a0 Feeling\u00a0the approach of\u00a0death, he\u00a0invested his son\u00a0Hurmuz\u00a0with power\u00a0and died.\u00a0 Anushirw\u0101n reigned forty-seven years and six months.\u00a0 After him reigned his son Hurmuz, son of Anushirw\u0101n, for eleven years and six months.\u00a0 This happened in the twelfth year of the reign of Justin, king of Rum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reign of Justinian continues, and after him Justin II.\u00a0 We have two\u00a0extracts from the lost Sassanid Persian chronicle that Eutychius has in Arabic translation.\u00a0 The Persian chronicler was plainly very well-disposed towards the next\u00a0Sassanid Persian\u00a0king, An\u016bshirw\u0101n. 13. Qab\u0101d died.The years when Qab\u0101d reigned, together with the years in which R\u0101m\u0101sf reigned, were around forty.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[672],"class_list":["post-15641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-eutychius"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}