Pseudo-Symeon
Sign in to savePseudo-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.
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- Named after
- Symeon the Metaphrast
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- medieval Greek
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- date of birth
- 0900-01-01
- writing language
- medieval Greek
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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.
It is a universal history from the creation of the world to the year 963. His main sources are Theophanes the Confessor and Symeon Logothete. For the years up to 812, he uses Theophanes, George Hamartolos, John Malalas and John of Antioch. For later years, he uses parts of Joseph Genesius and the anonymous Chronicle on Leo the Armenian. He made use of a lost anti-Photian tract that was also used by Niketas David Paphlagon.
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