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GEORGE THE SYNCELLUS IGEORGIOS

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GEORGE THE See also:SYNCELLUS IGEORGIOS SYNCELLOS], of See also:Constantinople, See also:Byzantine chronicler and ecclesiastic, lived at the end of the 8th and the beginning of the 9th See also:century A.D. He was the syncellus (See also:cell-See also:mate, the confidential campanion assigned to the patriarchs, sometimes little more than a See also:spy; see SYNCELLUS) or private secretary of See also:Tara(u)sius, See also:patriarch of Constantinople (784—806), after whose See also:death he retired to a See also:convent, and wrote his See also:Chronicle of events from See also:Adam to See also:Diocletian (285). At his See also:earnest See also:request, the See also:work, which he doubt-less intended to bring down to his own times, was continued after his death by his friend See also:Theophanes See also:Confessor. The Chronicle, which, as its See also:title implies, is rather a See also:chronological table (with notes) than a See also:history, is written with See also:special reference to pre-See also:Christian times and the introduction of See also:Christianity, and exhibits the author as a staunch upholder of orthodoxy. But in spite of its religious See also:bias and dry and uninteresting See also:character, the fragments of See also:ancient writers and apocryphal books preserved in it render it specially valuable. For instance, considerable portions of the See also:original See also:text of the Chronicle of See also:Eusebius have been restored by the aid of Syncellus. His See also:chief authorities were Annianus of See also:Alexandria (5th century) and Panodorus, an See also:Egyptian See also:monk, who wrote about the See also:year 400 and See also:drew largely from Eusebius, See also:Dexippus and See also:Julius See also:Africanus. Editio princeps, by J. Goar (1652); in See also:Bonn Corpus scriptorum hist. Bye., by W. See also:Dindorf (1829). See also H.

Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus, ii. I (1885) ; C. See also:

Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).

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