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Appendix 1
Malalas’ Chronography. Structure of Books VI and VII
{Main synchronic and transitional sequences are in italics)

Assyrian reigns,
then Persian
reigns
Macedonian
reigns
Italian, then
Roman reigns
Other notices
Book VI
Chapter 1
Nabucchodonosor
Chapter 2
Lydian reigns
Chapter 3 to 15
Other kings of
Assyrians from
Nabucchodono-
sor to Artaxerxes
Machrocheir
Release of
Nehemia and
Esdras and return
to Jerusalem
Chapter 16
From Cranaos
to Philip
Floruit of Greek
philosophers and
poets
Chapter 17
Artaxerxes’
successors until
Darius the Young
Heracles’arrival
in Italia
Synchronism from
Adam 39
Chapters 18 to 25
From Teleph to
Ascanius
Chapters 26
to 30
Artaxerxes
Mnemori reign
Albas, son of
Ascanius, and
other Aenedies
reigns
Eliakim priest of
Jews
Floruit of
Greek poets and
philosophers

39 This passage is likely corrupt and the interpretation of synchronism is hopeless (Jeffreys, “Chronologi-
cal structures”, p. 115).