The Parian Marble (or Parian Chronicle or Marmor Parium) is a Greek chronological table, covering the years from 1581 BC to 264 BC. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca Definition A chronology may be either relative &mdashthat is locating related events relative to each other&mdashor ''absolute'' &mdashlocating Events By place Greece Abantidas, the son of Paseas, becomes Tyrant of the Greek city-state of Sicyon after Found on the island of Páros, this inscription was deciphered by John Selden. For the town in Armenia see Nagapetavan. Paros ( Πάρος) is an Island of Greece in the central Aegean John Selden ( December 16, 1584 &ndash November 30, 1654) was an English Jurist, scholar of England's ancient laws It is currently broken into two fragments:
- The larger fragment, brought to London in 1627 and presented to Oxford University in 1667, contains entries for the years 1581–354 BC. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the It currently resides in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. The Ashmolean Museum (in full the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first It is considered one of the Arundel Marbles. The Arundelian Marbles are a collection of Greek marbles collected by Thomas Howard 21st Earl of Arundel in the early seventeenth century the first such comprehensive collection
- The smaller fragment, found in 1897, is in a museum on Páros. It contains entries for the years 356–299 BC.
The phrase Parian marble is also sometimes used to describe the type of marble used for the chronicle, and for many popular sculptures (for example, the Praxiteles statue of Hermes, and the Venus de Milo). Parian marble is a fine-grained semitranslucent pure-white Marble quarried during the classical era on the Greek island of Paros. Praxiteles ( Ancient Greek: Πραξιτέλης English prækˈsɪtɨliːz of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Hermes ( Greek,, ˈhɝmiːz in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them of Shepherds and The Aphrodite of Milos (Greek "Αφροδίτη της Μήλου" better known as the Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue
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