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CINNAMUS [KINNAMOS], JOHN , Byzantine historian, flourished in the second half of the 12th century. He was imperial secretary (probably in this case a post connected with the military ad-ministration) to Manuel I. Comnenus (1143-1180), whom he accompanied on his campaigns in Europe and Asia
Minor . He appears to have outlived Andronicus I., who died in 1185. Cinnamus was the author of a history of the period 11t8-1176, which thus continues the Alexiad of Anna Comnena, and em-braces the reigns of John II. and Manuel I., down to the unsuccessful campaign of the latter against the Turks, which ended with the disastrous battle of Myriokephalon and the rout of the Byzantine army. Cinnamus was probably an eye-witness of the events of the last ten years which he describes. The work
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straightforwardness of a soldier, and is not ashamed on occasion to confess his ignorance. The matter is well arranged, the style (modelled on that of Xenophon) simple, and on the whole free from the usual florid bombast of the Byzantine writers. Editio princeps, C. Tollius (1652) ; in Bonn
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