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thelinearpresentationofthestory
6.ThisMalalasianhabit
ofconnectinghisworkwithhistoricalepisodesoutside
theTrojanWarconnectsthispartofhistorytotherest
ofworld–andparticularlyBiblical–history,thuswea-
vingtogethertheChristianandthepaganandmarking
Justinian’sConstantinopleasboththeNewTroyand
theNewJerusalemthroughitsRomanandChristianinhe-
ritances(WYATT,1980:104–111)
7.ThoughMalalas’actual
indebtednesstoDictyshasbeendebatedandmaybeulti-
matelyunknowable(JEFFREYS,2001;TREADGOLD,2007),Ma-
lalasneverthelesscitesDictysbynameashissourceatsig-
nificantmomentsinthetext
8.Thetimingandthewayin
whichMalalasreferenceshissourcesuggesttheByzantine
chronicler’smethodofreceptionandadaptationofthean-
cientwriter.
Fromastructuralperspective,Malalas’citationsofDic-
tyscomprisearhetoricalstrategyfortransitioningbetween
6
NottobeconfusedwithwhatE.JefreyscallsHchronological
structures,”thatis,howMalalasatributesyearstotheeventshede-
scribes,forwhichseeJEFFREYS,1990:111–166.Ireferheretothetechnical
narratologicaluseoftheterm,whereinthestoryistheeventsofthetext
intheorderinwhichtheyarenarrated,asopposedtothefabula,which
isdefinedasHalltheeventswhicharerecountedinthestory,abstracted
fromtheirdispositioninthetextandreconstructedintheirchrono-
logicalorder”(DEJONG,2001:xiv).Thus,Dictys’storyandfabulaare
thesame,sincethereisnochronologicaldysjunction,whileMalalas’
storyandfabulavarymarkedlyashejumpsbackwardsandforwards
intime.
7
Esp.ibid.107:HWithintheFifthBook,themajorpartoftheGreek
textconsistsofajuxtapositionoftwounrelatedwars:theconflictfor
Troywithitsendlesslydestructiveconsequencesoverandagainst
astruggleforJerusalemwithitshighlyfortunateoutcome.Inaddition
topresentingachronicleofthetwowarswhichinformedhisGreekOr-
thodoxreadersaboutahistoricalperiodoftheirdualpagan-Hebrew
past,Malalashasalsopresentedtothem,bytheveryjuxtaposition
ofthetwowars,animplicithistoricalparable”.
8
FortheunusualnessofByzantinewriterscitingtheirsourcesgen-
erally,seeNILSSON,2004:14,n.11.
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