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GLYCAS, MICHAEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 146 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GLYCAS, See also:MICHAEL , See also:Byzantine historian (according to some a Sicilian, according to others a Corfiote), flourished during the 12th See also:century A.U. His See also:chief See also:work is his See also:Chronicle of events :1< 46 from the creation of the See also:world to the See also:death of Alexius I. See also:Comnenus (1118). It is extremely brief and written in a popular See also:style, but too much space is devoted to theological and scientific matters. Glycas was also the author of a theological See also:treatise and a number of letters on theological questions. A poem of some boo " See also:political " verses, written during his imprisonment on a See also:charge of slandering a See also:neighbour and containing. an See also:appeal to the See also:emperor See also:Manuel, is still extant. The exact nature of his offence is not known, but the See also:answer to his appeal was that he was deprived of his eyesight by the emperor's orders. See also:Editions: " Chronicle and Letters," in J. P. See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, clviii.; poem in E. Legrand, Bibliothbque grecque vulgaire, i. ; see also F.

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Hirsch, Byzanlinische Studien (1876) ; C. See also:Krumbacher in Sitzungsberichte bayer. Acad., 1894; C. F. See also:Bahr in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie.

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