Pseudo-Simeon
Pseudo-Simeon (or Pseudo-Symeon Magistros) is the conventional name given to the anonymous author of a late 10th-century Byzantine Greek chronicle which survives in a single codex, Parisinus Graecus 1712, copied in the 12th or 13th century.[1]
It is a world history from the creation of the world to the year 963.[2] His main sources are Theophanes the Confessor and Symeon Logothete.[1] For the years up to 812, he uses Theophanes, George Hamartolos, John Malalas and John of Antioch.[1][2] For later years, he uses parts of Joseph Genesius and the anonymous Chronicle on Leo the Armenian.[2] He made use of a lost anti-Photian tract that was also used by Niketas David Paphlagon.[1]
George Kedrenos used Pseudo-Simeon as the model for his own chronicle up to the year 812.[2] In the 14th century, the chronicle was translated into Slavonic.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Herbert Hunger: Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, XII. Byzantinisches Handbuch. 5,1. Philosophie, Rhetorik, Epistolographie, Geschichtsschreibung, Geographie, C. H. Beck, Munich 1978, pp. 355 ff.
External links
- Parisinus Graecus 1712 — online facsimiles from the Bibliothèque nationale de FranceTemplate:Textual-criticism-stub
