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MANASSES, CONSTANTINE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 541 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANASSES, See also:CONSTANTINE , See also:Byzantine chronicler, flourished in the 12th See also:century during the reign of See also:Manuel I. (See also:Comnenus) (1143–1180). He was the author of a See also:Chronicle or See also:historical synopsis of events from the creation of the See also:world to the end of the reign of Nicephorus Botaniates (1o8r), written by direction of See also:Irene, the See also:emperor's See also:sister-in-See also:law. It consists of about 7000 lines in the so-called " See also:political " See also:metre). There is little to be said of it, except that it is rather more poetical than the See also:iambic chronicle of See also:Ephraim (about 150 years later). It obtained See also:great popularity and appeared in a See also:free See also:prose See also:translation; it was also translated into See also:Slavonic. The poetical See also:romance of the Loves of See also:Aristander and Callithea, also in "political" See also:verse, is only known from the fragments preserved in the `Po&wvia (See also:rose-See also:garden) of Macarius Chrysocephalus (14th century). Manasses also wrote a See also:short See also:biography of See also:Oppian, and some descriptive pieces (all except one unpublished) on See also:artistic and other subjects.

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