THE REFLECTION OF THE FINAL PART OF THE POGODINSKII CHRONOGRAPH IN THE BRIEF CHRONOGRAPHIC PALAEA, THE INTRODUCTORY PART OF THE GREEK CHRONICLE, AND THE “PHILOSOPHER’S SPEECH” IN THE TALE OF BYGONE YEARS

The author of this article develops her earlier hypothesis that a common source of the “Philosopher’s Speech” in the Tale of Bygone Years and of the archetype of the Explanatory Palaea (Palaea Interpretata) was conveyed by the archetype of the Pogodinskii Chronograph. This chronograph is a translation of a Byzantine chronicle that resembles the Synopsis Historion by George Kedrenos and a fourteenthcentury Greek manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Barocci 30). This study shows that in addition to several already revealed relationships between these texts, the “Philosopher’s Speech” in the Tale of Bygone Years, the Brief Chronographic Palaea, and the introductory part of the first redaction of the Greek Chronicle (Ellinskii letopisets) reflected a peculiar retelling of the Book of Judges, which is found in the final part of the Pogodinskii Chronograph. In the “Philosopher’s Speech,” this retelling is rendered in but three sentences, which are, however, stylistically close to the final part of the Pogodinskii Chronograph. In the Brief Chronographic Palaea, the Book of Judges is reproduced twice. First, the author of the archetype of the Brief Chronographic Palaea took his version of the Book of Judges from the Explanatory Palaea and abbreviated it. Then another compiler augmented the Brief Chronographic Palaea with the retelling of the Book of Judges in the version of the Pogodinskii Chronograph, but not in an abbreviated manner, which means that this compiler did not follow the same practice of working with sources that the author of the archetype of the Palaea engaged in. The introductory part of the Greek Chronicle presents an abbreviated version of the retelling of the Book of Judges from the Pogodinskii Chronograph, but it does not include the additions peculiar to the Brief Chronographic Palaea, as seen in the omission of absolute dates. This means that the introductory part of the Greek Chronicle copied either the archetype of the Brief Chronographic Palaea or its escort.