147:(901–925) may indicate a date earlier in the century. It is not certain, therefore, that the author of the letters is the same as the author of the chronicle. Taken all together the evidence is consistent with the historian, poet and letter-writer being the same person as the Symeon who was promoted to
95:
translation. There are other continuations of the original beyond 948 besides the one that was attached to the continuation of George
Hamartolos. That continuation was probably composed in the circle of the
87:(919–944); the version that serves as a continuation of George Hamartolos and at one time had its own continuation down to 963; and the version contained in the chronicle of
60:. The third, covering the years 842–948, is the original work of Symeon. It can be divided into three distinct sections, each written in a different style: the reigns of
43:
On the
Creation of the World from the Time of Genesis, and a Chronicle after That, Compiled by Symeon the Magister and Logothete from Various Chronicles and Histories
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115:(963). He had probably finished his chronicle by this time. Manuscript copies of the dirge to Constantine refer to Symeon with the titles
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143:. It cannot be dated precisely. Internal references may indicate a late 10th-century origin. Some accompanying letters of Patriarch
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to one
Theodosius of Melitene and also to Leo Grammaticus, in fact the scribe of a copy of 1013 (
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The Rise and Fall of
Nikephoros II Phokas: Five Contemporary Texts in Annotated Translations
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Wahlgren, Staffan (2001). "Symeon the
Logothete: Some Philological Remarks".
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The identification of Symeon
Logothete with the near-contemporary
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351:of Symeon the Logothete for the Years 813–845".
312:. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
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347:(1979). "The Chronological Accuracy of the
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329:Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing
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309:The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
16:Byzantine Greek historian and poet
14:
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972:10th-century Byzantine historians
890:Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos
111:(959) and a poem on the death of
813:Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger
79:The chronicle survives in three
374:The Middle Byzantine Historians
288:
278:Wahlgren, Staffan, ed. (2019).
269:Wahlgren, Staffan, ed. (2006).
51:
698:Nikephoros I of Constantinople
331:. Cambridge University Press.
280:The Chronicle of the Logothete
186:
1:
282:. Liverpool University Press.
260:Sullivan, Denis, ed. (2018).
107:on the death of the Emperor
54: 685–695, 705–711
7:
982:Logothetai tou stratiotikou
296:Kazhdan, Alexander (1991).
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124:logothetes tou stratiotikou
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823:Eustathius of Thessalonica
499:Socrates of Constantinople
372:Treadgold, Warren (2013).
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68:(867–886); the reigns of
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91:. It also survives in a
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620:Theophanes of Byzantium
570:Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor
535:Eustathius of Epiphania
479:Panodorus of Alexandria
756:Theophanes Continuatus
474:Olympiodorus of Thebes
454:Annianus of Alexandria
376:. Palgrave Macmillan.
159:(963–969) and then to
951:Pseudo-George Kodinos
895:John VI Kantakouzenos
869:Theodore Skoutariotes
656:Theophylact Simocatta
585:Liberatus of Carthage
540:Evagrius Scholasticus
382:10.1057/9781137280862
353:Dumbarton Oaks Papers
337:10.1017/9781139626880
177:is far from certain.
161:logothetes tou dromou
134:logothetes tou dromou
26:) was a 10th-century
843:Constantine Manasses
672:Hippolytus of Thebes
651:Trajan the Patrician
545:Hesychius of Miletus
530:Cyril of Scythopolis
441:Byzantine historians
273:. Walter de Gruyter.
157:Nikephoros II Phokas
30:historian and poet.
885:Nicephorus Gregoras
772:Michael Attaleiates
605:Peter the Patrician
494:Sabinus of Heraclea
246:, pp. 118–123.
212:, pp. 197–224.
175:Symeon Metaphrastes
936:Michael Critobulus
864:George Akropolites
595:Menander Protector
550:John Diakrinomenos
304:Kazhdan, Alexander
299:"Symeon Logothete"
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946:George Sphrantzes
905:Michael Panaretos
900:George Pachymeres
818:Niketas Choniates
709:Scriptor Incertus
703:George Hamartolos
590:Marcellinus Comes
560:John of Epiphania
345:Treadgold, Warren
145:Nicholas Mystikos
113:Stephen Lekapenos
85:Romanos Lekapenos
58:George Hamartolos
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751:Symeon Logothete
693:George Syncellus
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615:Theodorus Lector
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35:world chronicle
33:Symeon wrote a
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24:Symeon Magister
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359:: 157–197.
167:(969–976).
137:and former
62:Michael III
966:Categories
464:John Rufus
153:logothetes
81:redactions
977:Magistroi
610:Procopius
509:Theodoret
391:Byzantion
349:Chronicle
149:magistros
129:magistros
118:magistros
74:Alexander
600:Nonnosus
575:Jordanes
525:Agathias
459:Eunapius
403:44172551
264:. Brill.
253:Editions
39:Creation
630:Zosimus
504:Sozomen
489:Priscus
469:Malchus
365:1291437
306:(ed.).
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941:Doukas
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399:JSTOR
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