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HESYCHIUS OF MILETUS

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HESYCHIUS OF See also:MILETUS , See also:Greek chronicler and biographer, surnamed Illustrius, son of an See also:advocate, flourished at See also:Constantinople in the 5th See also:century A.D. during the reign of Justinian. According to See also:Photius (See also:cod. 69) he was the author of three important See also:works. (1) A Compendium of Universal See also:History in six books, from Belus, the reputed founder of the See also:Assyrian See also:empire, to See also:Anastasius I. (d. 518). A considerable fragment has been preserved from the See also:sixth See also:book, entitled Mir pm Kwvara11rWUV4r6XEws, a history of See also:Byzantium from its earliest beginnings till the See also:time of See also:Constantine the See also:Great. (2) A See also:Biographical See also:Dictionary ('OvoisaroXoyos or lIivae) of Learned Men, arranged according to classes (poets, philosophers), the See also:chief See also:sources of which were the MovcnKr) icropia of Aelius See also:Dionysius and the works of Herennius See also:Philo. Much of it has been incorporated in the See also:lexicon of Suidas, as we learn from that author. It is disputed, however, whether the words in Suidas (" of which this book is an See also:epitome ") mean that Suidas himself epitomized the See also:work of Hesychius, or whether they are See also:part of the See also:title of an already epitomized Hesychius used by Suidas. The second view is more generally held. The epitome referred to, in which alphabetical See also:order was substituted for arrangement in classes and some articles on See also:Christian writers added as a concession to the times, is assigned from See also:internal indications to the years 829-837.

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original work are lost, with the exception of the excerpts in Photius and Suidas. A smaller compilation, chiefly from See also:Diogenes Laertius and Suidas, with a similar title, is the work of an unknown author of the 11th or 12th century. (3) A History of the Reign of See also:Justin I. (518-527) and the See also:early years of Justinian, completely lost. Photius praises the See also:style of Hesychius, and credits him with being a veracious historian. See also:Editions; J. C. See also:Orelli (182o) and J. Flack (1882); fragments in C. W. See also:Muller, Frag. hist. Graec. iv.

143 and in T. Preger's Scriptores originis Constantinopolitanae, i. (1901); Pseudo-Hesychius, by J. See also:

Flach (188o) ; see generally C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur (1897).

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