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The account of Thoulis, king of Egypt, in the Chronographia of John Malalas

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dc.contributor.authorGarstad, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-03
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T01:16:13Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T01:16:13Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThoulis first appears in the sixth-century chronicle of John Malalas. It has been suggested that his name is a corruption of the material found in the traditional Egyptian king-lists, but it seems more likely that he and the narrative associated with him are a fiction of more recent invention.Thoulis is modeled on Sesostris, Osiris, and Alexander the Great and the narrative of his exploits alludes to the stories of these figures. The focus of this narrative is an oracle which deflates the king’s arrogance and obliquely prophesies the doctrine of the Trinity. This oracle is consistent with the exploitation of ostensibly genuine oracles in the pagan-Christian polemics of the fourth century. Indeed, the account of Thoulis as a whole seems to have been drafted to advance the Christian position in this debate, apparently by one Bouttios in the late fourth century.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/cgi-bin/SFX/url.pl/BTJ
dc.identifier.citationGarstad, Benjamin. “The Account of Thoulis, king of Egypt, in the Chronographia of John Malalas.” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 107 (2014) 51-76.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/bz-2014-0004
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/2009
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectThoulis
dc.subjectThe chronicle of John Malalas
dc.subjectEgyptian king-lists
dc.subjectSesostris
dc.subjectOsiris
dc.subjectAlexander the Great
dc.subjectoracle
dc.subjectthe Trinity
dc.subjectpagan-Christian polemics
dc.subjectBouttios
dc.titleThe account of Thoulis, king of Egypt, in the Chronographia of John Malalasen
dc.typeArticle

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