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ACOMINATUS (AKOMINATOS), See also:MICHAEL (c. 1140-1220) , See also:Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic, was See also:born at Chonae (the See also:ancient See also:Colossae). At an See also:early See also:age he studied at See also:Constantinople, and about 1175 was appointed See also:archbishop of See also:Athens. After the See also:capture of Constantinople by the See also:Franks and the See also:establishment of the Latin See also:empire (1204), he retired to the See also:island of See also:Ceos, where he died. He was a versatile writer, and composed homilies, speeches and poems, which, with his See also:correspondence, throw considerable See also:light upon the miserable See also:condition of See also:Attica and Athens at the See also:time. His memorial to See also:Alexis III. See also:Angelus on the abuses of Byzantine See also:administration, the poetical lament over the degeneracy of Athens and the monodes on his See also:brother Nicetas and See also:Eustathius, archbishop of Thessalonica, deserve See also:special mention. Edition of his See also:works by S. Lambros (1879-1880) ; See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxl. ; see also A. Ellissen, Michael Akominatos (1846), containing several pieces with See also:German See also:translation; F. See also:Gregorovius, Geschichte der Stadt Athen See also:im Mittelalter, i.

(1889); G. See also:

Finlay, See also:History of See also:Greece, iv. pp. 133-134 (1877). His younger brother NICETAS (Niketas), sometimes called CHONIATES, who accompanied him to Constantinople, took up politics as a career. He held several appointments under the Angelus emperors (amongst them that of " See also:great See also:logothete " or See also:chancellor) and was See also:governor of the " theme " of See also:Philippopolis at a See also:critical See also:period. After the fall of Constantinople he fled to See also:Nicaea, where he settled at the See also:court of the See also:emperor See also:Theodorus See also:Lascaris, and devoted himself to literature. He died between 1210 and 1220. His See also:chief See also:work is his History, in 21 books, of the period from 118o to 1206. In spite of its florid and bombastic See also:style, it is of considerable value as a See also:record (on the whole impartial) of events of which he was either an See also:eye-See also:witness or had heard at first See also:hand. Its most interesting portion is the description of the capture of Constantinople, which should be read with See also:Villehardouin's and See also:Paolo Rannusio's works on the same subject. The little See also:treatise On the Statues destroyed by the Latins (perhaps, as we have it, altered by a later writer) is of special See also:interest to the archaeologist. His dogmatic work(Orlvaupor 'OpGoboEias, See also:Thesaurus Orthodoxae Fidei), although it is extant in a See also:complete See also:form in MS., has only been published in See also:part.

It is one of the chief authorities for the heresies and heretical writers of the 12th See also:

century. See also:Editions: History, editio princeps, H. See also:Wolf (1557); and in the See also:Bonn Corpus Scriptorum Hist. Bye., 1st ed.,See also:Bekker (1835) ; Rhetorical Pieces in C. Sathas, Mee-See also:awe,, 1 BLf]\LOOhnn, i. (1872); Thesaurus in Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxxxix., cxl. ; see also C. A. Sainte-Beuve, " See also:Geoffroy de Villehardouin " in Causeries du Lundi, ix.; S. See also:Reinach, " La fin de 1'empire grec " in Esquisses Archeologiques (1888) ; C. See also:Neumann, Griechische Geschichtsschreiber im 12. Jahrhundert (1888); See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. lx.

; and (for both Michael and Nicetas) C. See also:

Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).

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