{"id":49636,"date":"2024-03-30T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=49636"},"modified":"2024-03-30T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:40:20","slug":"eutychius-annals-now-combined-into-a-single-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2024\/03\/30\/eutychius-annals-now-combined-into-a-single-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutychius, Annals, now combined into a single file"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took me five years to turn Pirone’s Italian translation of Eutychius’\u00a0Annals<\/em> into English, using Google Translate.\u00a0 That process created 102 blog posts.<\/p>\n

People complained that they couldn’t find the bits that they wanted.\u00a0 A kind correspondent wrote and emailed me a zip file of those posts, in 102 word documents.<\/p>\n

So I’ve done it.\u00a0 I’ve combined them, straightened the formatting somewhat, and added them to the Eutychius home page.\u00a0 It’s here<\/a>.\u00a0 There’s a .docx and a .pdf.<\/p>\n

Eutychius – or Said ibn Bitriq – was the 10th century Melkite – Greek Orthodox – “Patriarch of Alexandria”.\u00a0 The real patriarch was, of course, a Copt.\u00a0 So he had a little congregation of Greeks, and had time for literature.\u00a0 His “Annals” are based on Byzantine Chronicles.\u00a0 But because he wrote in Arabic, he had access to Arabic translations of lost Sassanid Persian chronicles.\u00a0 He incorporates extracts into his work, which by itself would give it value.<\/p>\n

As with all these Arabic Chronicles, it is divided into two halves.\u00a0 The first runs from the Creation of the World to the reign of Heraclius.\u00a0 The second part covers the Muslim period.<\/p>\n

I hope it’s useful.\u00a0 It’s a totally unfinished piece of work, but I don’t know that I will ever do more.\u00a0 So… may it be useful as it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took me five years to turn Pirone’s Italian translation of Eutychius’\u00a0Annals into English, using Google Translate.\u00a0 That process created 102 blog posts. People complained that they couldn’t find the bits that they wanted.\u00a0 A kind correspondent wrote and emailed me a zip file of those posts, in 102 word documents. So I’ve done it.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-49636","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\/49636","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=49636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}