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          Parian Marble redirects here; for marble from Paros, see Parian
          marble.

   Detail from the shorter fragment base of the stele, found in 1897,
   that is in a museum on Páros. It contains chronicle entries for the
   years 356-299 BC.

   The Parian Marble (Marmor Parium) or Parian Chronicle is a Greek
   chronological table, covering the years from 1581 BC to 264 BC,
   inscribed on a stele. Found on the island of Páros in two sections,
   and sold in Smyrna in the early 17th century to an agent for Thomas
   Howard, Earl of Arundel, this inscription was deciphered by John
   Selden and published among the Arundel Marbles, Marmora Arundelliana
   (London 1628-9) nos. 1-21, 59-119. One of the sections published by
   Selden has subsequently disappeared. A further third fragment of this
   inscription, comprising the base of the stele and containing the end
   of the text, was found on Paros in 1897.

   The two known upper fragments, brought to London in 1627 and presented
   to Oxford University in 1667, contain entries for the years
   1581-322/21 BC.^[1] The surviving upper chronicle fragment currently
   resides in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. It combines dates for
   events we would consider mythic, such as the Flood of Deucalion
   (equivalent to 1528/27 BC) with dates we would categorize as historic.
   For the Greeks, the events of their distant past, such as the Trojan
   War (dated to 1218 in the Parian inscription) and the Voyage of the
   Argonauts were historic: their myths were understood as legends to the
   Greeks. In fact the Parian inscriptions spend more detail on the
   Heroic Age than on certifiably historic events closer to the date the
   stele was inscribed and erected, apparently in 264/263 BC. "The Parian
   Marble uses chronological specificity as a guarantee of truth," Peter
   Green observed in the introduction to his annotated translation of the
   Argonautica of Apollonios Rhodios:^[2] "the mythic past was rooted in
   historical time, its legends treated as fact, its heroic protagonists
   seen as links between the 'age of origins' and the mortal, everyday
   world that succeeded it."^[3]

   The shorter fragment base of the stele, found in 1897, is in a museum
   on Páros. It contains chronicle entries for the years 356-299 BC.

[edit] Notes

    1. ^ Ashmolean Museum: transcriptions and translations
    2. ^ Green, Peter (2007). The Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios.
       Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 30.
       ISBN 9780520253933.
    3. ^ Green (2007), p. 14, noting Brillante, C. (1991). "Myth and
       history: history and the historical interpretation of myth". In
       Edmunds, L.. Approaches to Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
       University Press. pp. 91-140 (esp. pp 101f.). ISBN 0801838630.

     * Kerrigan, 2009. The Ancients in Their Own Words, The Parian
       Marble, p. 144-45, photo of Ashmolean piece and translation
       excerpts, Michael Kerrigan, Fall River Press, Amber Books Ltd, c
       2009. {hardcover. ISBN 978-1-4351-0724-3)

[edit] External links

     * Ashmolean exhibit including images and English translation.

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