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John Skylitzes

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John Skylitzes

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Greek historian (early 1040s – after 1101)

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John Skylitzes (1040–1110) was a male historian and writer from the Byzantine Empire. He composed his works in medieval Greek. His notable writings include *John Skylitzes: a Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057* and *A Synopsis Of Byzantine History 8111057*.

Records indicate he is associated with three to five works. His writings are referenced by 372 other encyclopedia articles. He is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Works
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Top works

  • John Skylitzes
  • John Skylitzes : a Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057
  • A Synopsis Of Byzantine History 8111057

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,644x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,680x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,923x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,594x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,138x

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Quotes

  • οἶδε γὰρ ἡ ἀνάγνωσις ἀνάμνησιν ἐμποιεῖν, ἡ δ᾽ ἀνάμνησις τρέφειν καὶ μεγαλύνειν τὴν μνήμην, ὥσπερ τουναντίον ἡ ἀμέλεια καὶ ῥαστώνη ἐπιφέρειν ἀμνηστίαν, ἦτινι πάντως ἕπεται λήθη ἀμαυροῦσα καὶ συγχέουσα τὴν μνήμην τῶν πεπραγμένων.

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to John Skylitzes, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Varangian Guardsmen, an illumination from the 11th century chronicle of John Skylitzes. Depiction of Greek fire in the Madrid Skylitzes

John Skylitzes, commonly Latinized as Ioannes Scylitzes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Σκυλίτζης, romanized: Iōánnēs Skylítzēs, Byzantine Greek: [i.oˈa.nis sc̠iˈlit.t͡sis]; Latin: Ioannes Scyllitzes, Latin: [jɔˈan.ne̝s sk̟ilˈlit̪.d͡ze̝s]; early 1040s – after 1101), was a Byzantine historian of the late 11th century.

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