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Headword:
*ma/lxos
Adler number: mu,120
Translated headword: Malchos, Malchus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of
Byzantium.[1] Sophist. He wrote a history from the reign of Constantine down to Anastasius, in which he narrates the reign of
Zeno and Basiliscus, the burning of the public library and of the statues of the Augusteum, lamenting them with great solemnity and in the manner of a tragedy.
*ma/lxos, *buza/ntios, sofisth/s. e)/grayen i(stori/an a)po\ th=s basilei/as *kwnstanti/nou kai\ e(/ws *)anastasi/ou: e)n h(=| ta\ kata\ *zh/nwna kai\ *basili/skon kai\ to\n e)mprhsmo\n th=s dhmosi/as biblioqh/khs kai\ tw=n a)galma/twn tou= *au)goustai/ou kai\ a)/lla tina\ diece/rxetai ma/la semnw=s kai\ tragw|di/as di/khn a)poqrhnw=n au)ta/.
Notes:
References:
B. Baldwin, 'Malchus of Philadelphia', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 31 (1977) 89-107
R. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire (Liverpool 1981-83) 1.71-85, 2.402-62
L.R. Cresci, Malco di Filadelfia: frammenti (Naples 1982)
C. Mango, Michael Vickers and E. D. Francis, 'The Palace of Lausus at Constantinople and its Collection of Ancient Statues' Journal of the History of Collections 4 (1992) 89-98, esp.89-92
Keywords: art history; biography; chronology; geography; historiography; history; religion; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 4 September 2003@13:44:57.
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