Byzantine literature

The Alexiad () is a medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. It was written in a form of artificial Attic Greek. Anna described the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, thus providing a significant account on the Byzantium of the High Middle Ages. Among other topics, the Alexiad documents the Byzantine Empire's interaction with the Crusades and highlights the conflicting perceptions of the East and West in the early 12th century. It do

two saints

literature of the Byzantine Empire

950 essay by Konstantinos VII

ancient Greek literary work

7th-century Greek Christian chronicle

alt=|thumb|250x250px|Leo VI (right) and Basil I (left), from the 12th-century Madrid Skylitzes. The Basilika (, "the imperial [laws]") was a collection of laws completed in Constantinople by order of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise during the Macedonian dynasty. This was a continuation of the efforts of his father, Basil I, to simplify and adapt the Emperor Justinian I's Corpus Juris Civilis code of law issued between 529 and 534 which had become outdated. The term comes from the Greek adjective Basilika meaning "Imperial (laws or enactments)" and not from the Emperor Basil's name; both

essay by Konstantinos VII

illustrated illuminated manuscript of the Synopsis of Histories by John Skylitzes

thumb|The Kievan Cave Patericon (Russia, 1758). Patericon or paterikon (), a short form for πατερικόν βιβλίον ("father's book", usually Lives of the Fathers in English), and sometimes also known as gerontikon (), is a genre of Byzantine literature of religious character, which were collections of sayings of saints, martyrs and hierarchs, and tales about them. These texts also have their roots in early monasticism.

The Geoponica or Geoponika () is a twenty-book collection of agricultural lore, compiled during the 10th century in Constantinople for the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The Greek word Geoponica signifies "agricultural pursuits" in its widest sense. It is the only surviving Byzantine agricultural work.

The Synecdemus or Synekdemos () is a geographic text, attributed to Hierocles, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of their cities. The work is dated to the reign of Justinian but prior to 535 AD, as it divides the 912 listed cities in the Empire among 64 Eparchies. The Synecdemus, along with the work of Stephanus of Byzantium were the principal sources of Constantine VII's work on the Themes (De Thematibus).

literary genre

11th-century Greek manuscript

5th-century Christian texts

The '''Klētorologion of Philotheos' () is the longest and most important of the Byzantine lists of offices and court precedence (Taktika). It was published in September 899 during the reign of Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912) by the otherwise unknown prōtospatharios and atriklinēs Philotheos. As atriklinēs, Philotheos would have been responsible for receiving the guests for the imperial banquets (klētοria) and for conducting them to their proper seating places according to their place in the imperial hierarchy. In the preface to his work, he explicitly states that he compiled this treatise

book that lists Byzantine offices, dignities, and titles composed in Constantinople

Anthology of Greek epigrams and poems

collection of homilies; historical record of the Balkans (7th century)

geography work by Cosmas Indicopleustes (c. 550)

literary work

monumental fifty-volume series of primary sources for the study of Byzantine history

mid-9th century Greek document

7th-century Christian Greek-language tract

writer on agriculture

Egyptian poet, lawyer, civic administrator

Byzantine illuminated manuscript

The Hippiatrica () is a Byzantine compilation of ancient Greek texts, mainly excerpts, dedicated to the care and healing of the horse. The texts were probably compiled in the fifth or sixth century AD by an unknown editor. Currently, the compilation is preserved in five recensions in 22 manuscripts (containing 25 copies) ranging in date from the 10th to the 16th centuries AD.

handwritten script of the Byzantine Empire

The Timarion () is a Byzantine pseudo-Lucianic satirical dialogue probably composed in the twelfth century (there are references to the eleventh-century Michael Psellus), though possibly later.

53 volume Greek anthology

work by Procopius

work by Proclus

Latin historiographical workwritten by Jordanes

early medieval genealogical text in Latin

byzantine Greek text about Constantinople

7th-century book by John Moschus