While the roots of the chronicle have not yet been satisfactorily traced, their comparatively late appearance (6th century) and total remove from Hellenistic tradition places their origins as fairly recent.
Premda koreni vizantijske hronografije još uvek nisu pouzdano utvrđeni, njihovo relativno kasno pojavljivanje (6. vek) i potpuno odsustvo helenističke tradicije u njima znače da one predstavljaju relativno novu tvorevinu.