Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians

Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University. His areas of expertise include Byzantine studies and Greek historiography.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction Xenophon in Byzantium and the coded poem for Leon VI The Excerpta historica of Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos The Scholia on the Zosimos manuscript Ioannes Tzetzes’ verse scholia on Thucydides Scholia on Diodoros of Sicily by Niketas Choniates and others Theodoros Metochites and the Greek Historians Ioannes Kanaboutzes’ Commentary on the Roman Antiquities of Dionysios of Halikarnassos Bibliography

"Kaldellis’s translations are a pleasure to read. The notes and introductions to the translations will surely be highly informative for readers without knowledge of Byzantine history... I appreciate how the book depicts the ancient and Byzantine approaches, demonstrating how each tradition can complement and —even if it sounds paradoxical — explain the other. Kaldellis’s book stands as yet another success in making Byzantine intellectual culture more accessible." - Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia, Poland, in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016"... elegant... an original collection of texts from the middle and the late Byzantine era ... [this] anthology is an important and original one."- Irene-Sophia Kiapidou, University of Patras, Greece, BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA 2018