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GEORGE THE SYNCELLUS IGEORGIOS

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 747 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GEORGE THE SYNCELLUS IGEORGIOS SYNCELLOS], of
Constantinople
 , Byzantine chronicler and ecclesiastic, lived at the end of the 8th and the beginning of the 9th century A.D. He was the
syncellus
  (cell-mate, the confidential campanion assigned to the patriarchs, sometimes little more than a spy; see
SYNCELLUS
 ) or private secretary of Tara(u)sius, patriarch of
Constantinople
  (784806), after whose death he retired to a convent, and wrote his Chronicle of events from
Adam
  to Diocletian (285). At his
earnest
  request, the
work
 , which he doubt-less intended to bring down to his own times, was continued after his death by his friend
Theophanes
  Confessor. The Chronicle, which, as its title implies, is rather a chronological table (with notes) than a history, is written with
special
  reference to pre-Christian times and the introduction of Christianity, and exhibits the author as a staunch upholder of orthodoxy. But in spite of its religious bias and dry and uninteresting character, the fragments of ancient writers and apocryphal books preserved in it render it specially valuable. For instance, considerable portions of the
original
  text of the Chronicle of Eusebius have been restored by the aid of Syncellus. His
chief
  authorities were Annianus of Alexandria (5th century) and Panodorus, an Egyptian monk, who wrote about the year 400 and drew largely from Eusebius, Dexippus and Julius Africanus.
Editio princeps, by J. Goar (1652); in
Bonn
  Corpus scriptorum hist. Bye., by W. Dindorf (1829). See also H. Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus, ii. I (1885) ; C. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).


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