He called them dragon-footed, and said they were consumed with various punishments by the gods. The most wise Peisander, a poet of the Hellenes after the time of Moses, expressed poetically that these giants were men born from the earth, having feet of snakes, and daring somehow to attack the highest divine forces. God was angry, and said to them, “Let my spirit not remain in these men, because they are flesh,” as is contained in the Mosaic scriptures. The rest of the giants saw so many of them struck by lightning but remained unpersuaded. He said a sphere of fire came down in the Celtic country. The Chaeroneian Plutarch told it more accurately. They tell this story about the fire, and say Phaethon was the son of the Sun, and that he fell from the chariot to earth, which story Ovid wrote poetically. The sphere came down in the Jordan river and was extinguished. § 1.3 In these times, God sent from the heavens a sphere of fire against the giants in the Celtic country and burned it and them. Kain took his sister Azouran for his wife.
Seth lived 912 years and took as his wife Asouam his own sister and had children with her, and there was a large generation of people and women.
The very wise Fortunus the Roman chronicler wrote this, in an account I found in Constantinople. God called the two great heavenly lights, to the authority of the day the Sun, to the authority of the night the Moon. He first discovered Hebrew letters and wrote them down. He expounded the seven vowels from the five planets and two heavenly lights.
The first planet star he called Kronos, the second Hera, the third Ares, the fourth Aphrodite, the fifth Hermes. His son Seth had wisdom from God, and by God’s command put names on all the stars, and the five planets so they would be recognized by mankind. His own name and the name of his wife were spoken to them by an angel. At God’s command, Adam put names to all the quadrupeds and winged things and amphibians and reptiles and fish and their offspring. His wife was called Eva, and she bore three sons, Cain, Abel, and Seth, and two daughters Azouran (Azura) and Asouam (Awan). He had the measurement of his age, 6 feet, including his head, to make 96 finger-widths of this age, his hand-span 16 fingers, his forearm (cubit) 24 fingers, his foot 16 fingers. The first human being on earth, Adam, was built or created by God. § 1.1 BOOK 1 (from Thurn text) OF THE TIMES OF ADAM This text has 1755 tagged references to 302 ancient places.ĬTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2871.tlg001 Wikidata ID: Q19738955 Trismegistos: authorwork/205 Corrections gratefully accepted (JBK 2019). He is the most detailed surviving source in Greek for Antioch on the Orontes, his home town, and offers many unique factoids. Drawing seemingly at random from a grab-bag of mostly third-hand sources, he glues together garbled Greek and Syrian myth and history into something a pious Christian could tolerate. Malalas writes a repetitive post-Classical Greek, cruder than that of his contemporary Procopius. The effort before you is intended to advertise Malalas' importance in capturing a dramatic change in Greek language and culture by the reign of Justinian in the 6th century CE. Anyone doing serious scholarship must consult the 2000 Thurn Greek critical edition, horrendously expensive, and the careful English translation of Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, and Roger Scott, The Chronicle of John Malalas, 1986, Brill reprint 2017, which unfortunately will remain in copyright for the foreseeable future. The separate translation of books 8-9 is borrowed from Andrew Smith of. A few Christian passages are adapted from the Slavonic version tranlated by Matthew Spinka (University of Chicago Press 1940, online at ). The Greek text is mostly that of the 1830s Dindorf edition, apart from the restored Book 1, from that of Ioannes Thurn (De Gruyter 2000)). Malalas, Chronography Bks 1-7, 10-18Ioannis Malalas, Chronicle, Books 1-7 and 10-18, a high-speed, pseudo-literal translation by Brady Kiesling in 2019.
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