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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 802 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRONICLE (Chronicon or Marmor Parium)  , a See also:marble tablet found in the See also:island of See also:Paros in 1627, now among the See also:Arundel See also:Marbles at See also:Oxford . It originally embraced an outline of See also:Greek See also:history from the reign cf See also:Cecrops, legendary See also:king of See also:Athens, down to the archonship of See also:Diognetus at Athens (264 B.C.) . The See also:Chronicle seems to have been set up by a private See also:person, but, as the opening of the inscription has perished, we do not know the occasion or motives which prompted the step . The author of the Chronicle has given much See also:attention to the festivals, and to See also:poetry and See also:music; thus he has recorded the See also:dates of the See also:establishment of festivals, of the introduction of various kinds of poetry, the births and deaths of the poets, and their victories in contests of poetical skill . On the other See also:hand, important See also:political and military events are often entirely omitted; thus the return of the See also:Heraclidae, See also:Lycurgus, the See also:wars of See also:Messene, See also:Draco, See also:Solon, See also:Cleisthenes, See also:Pericles, the Peloponnesian See also:War and the See also:Thirty Tyrants are not even mentioned . The years are reckoned backwards from the archonship of Diognetus, and the dates are further specified by the See also:kings and archons of Athens . The reckoning by Olympiads is not employed . The Chronicle consists of 93 lines, written chiefly in the See also:Attic See also:dialect . The Parian Chronicle (first published by See also:Selden in 1628) is printed by A . See also:Bockh in the Corpus inscriptionum graecorum, vol. ii., No . 2374, and by C . W .

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Muller in the Fragmenta historicorum graecorum, vol. i . ; there are See also:separate See also:editions by J . See also:Flach (1883) and F . Jacoby (1904) . A New fragment was discovered in 1897, bringing the Chronicle down to the See also:year 299 (ed . See also:Crispi and Wilhelm in Mittheilungen See also:des archaeologischen Instituts, athenische Abtheilung, vol. xxii., 1897) . See also " Notes on the See also:Text of the Parian Marble " and See also:review of Jacoby's edition by J . A . R . See also:Munro in Classical Review (See also:March and See also:October 1901 and See also:June 1905) .

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