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MALALAS (or MALELAS) (Syriac for " orator "), JOHN (c. 491-578)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 461 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MALALAS (or MALELAS) (Syriac for " orator "), JOHN (c. 491-578) , Byzantine chronicler, was born at Antioch. He wrote a Xpovo'ypacga in 18 books, the beginning and the end of which are lost. In its present state it begins with the mythical history of
Egypt
  and ends with the expedition to Africa under Marcianus, the nephew of Justinian. Except for the history of Justinian and his immediate predecessors, it possesses little historical value; it is written without any idea of proportion and contains astonishing blunders. The writer is a supporter of Church and State, an upholder of monarchical principles. The
work
  is rather a chronicle written round Antioch, which he regarded as the centre of the world, and (in the later books) round
Constantinople
 . It is, however, important as the first specimen of a chronicle written not for the learned but for the instruction of the monks and the common people, in the language of the vulgar, with an admixture of Latin and Oriental words. It obtained
great
  popularity, and was conscientiously exploited by various writers until the filth century, being translated even into the Slavonic languages. It is preserved in an abridged form in a single MS. now at
Oxford
 .
For the authorities consulted by Malalas, the influence of his
work
  on Slavonic and Oriental literature, the state of the text, the
original
  form and extent of the work, the date of its composition, the relation of the concluding part to the whole, and the literature of the subject, see C. Krumbacher's Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897). See also the editio princeps, by E. Chilmead (
Oxford
 , 1691), containing an essay by
Humphrey
  Hody and
Bentley
 's well-known
letter
  to Mill; other editions in the
Bonn
  Corpus scriptorum hist. byz., by L. Dindorf (1831), and in J. P. Migne Patrologia graeca, xcvii.


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