СИМВОЛИКАТА НА ХИПОДРУМА В СВЕТОВНА ХРОНИКА НА ЙОАН МАЛАЛА
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE HIPPODROME IN JOHN MALALAS’S WORLD CHRONICLE

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the hippodrome model in John Malalas’s World Chronicle. It studies the reason for the appearance of horse races at the time of Romulus’s reign. It comments on the issue why the author of the story does not hide the names of the pagan deities. The idea is, that through the symbolism of the hippodrome John Malalas presents the continuity between Hellas and Rome and in this way gives proof of the ancient roots of the Eastern Roman Empire – Byzantium. There is also an emphasis on the fact that the story of the hippodrome in John Malalas’s Chronicle could be the grounds for specifying the time of the translation from Greek into Old-Bulgarian.

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