The Church Fathers · c. 221; survives in fragments
Chronographiae
Julius Africanus · c. 160–c. 240
What it is
A universal chronology in five books synchronising biblical history with Greek and Near Eastern records, dating creation and placing the incarnation within a scheme of world ages.
Why it lasted
The first Christian world chronicle, and the model for Eusebius and every medieval chronicler after him.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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