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Ancient and Medieval Chronology

Legendary biographies

Ancient literature used to resort to cliches and borrowings, for example, in the description of some particular rulers. Sometimes, the chroniclers ascribed the character and deeds of ancient kings to other rulers. To detect and study these cliches and duplicates, I have introduced the concept of enquete-code, or formalized "biography". An authentic ruler described in the chronicles will thereby acquire a "historical literary biography", which might have nothing to do with the authentic one and can be legendary. On the basis of the investigation of a large number of historical biographies, a table called an enquete-code was worked out, hierarchically ordering the facts of the biography with the decrease of their invariance relative to the personal attitudes of the authors.
An enquete-code consists of 34 items, each of which contains several subitems. But how do we know, without resorting to the analysis of the contents of the chronicles, whether or not these chronicles describe the same authentic dynasty? If the rule durations are indicated in the chronicles, then we can apply the numerical dynasty recognition method (see Section 12.3 above). However, if such numerical data are not available, then the problem gets more complicated. Thus, how can the same authentic dynasty be distinguished from the set of all enquete-codes? To solve the problem, a method based on the small-distortion principle (see above) has been worked out. In this case, it is formulated thus:
The enquete- codes of two dynasties differ "little" from each other, then they represent the same authentic dynasty; however, if two enquete-codes represent different dynasties, then they are "far" from one another.

Here, we omit the description of the numerical coefficient similar to A(M, H) and permitting us to separate reliably the "dependent enquete-codes" from the "independent" ones. The experimental check has confirmed the validity of the small-distortion principle in this case, too: It turned out that the enquete-codes representing the same dynasty were much less different from each other than those of different authentic dynasties. It is obvious that this circumstance permits us to date the enquete-codes of dynasties in accordance with the above procedure.

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