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Photius ( Codex 99 ) gives an outline of the contents of this work and passes a flattering encomium on the style of Herodian, which he describes as clear, vigorous, agreeable, and preserving a happy medium between an utter disregard of art and elegance and a profuse employment of the artifices and prettinesses which were known under the name of Atticism, as well as between boldness and bombast.
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Photius and Codex
The fullest account of Leucius is that given by Photius ( Codex 114 ), who describes a book, called The Circuits of the Apostles, which contained the Acts of Peter, John, Andrew, Thomas, and Paul, that was purported to have been written by " Leucius Charinus " which he judged full of folly, self-contradiction, falsehood, and impiety ( Wace ); Photius is the only source to give his second name, " Charinus ".
Photius ( Bibliotheca Codex 242 ) summarizes Damascius as saying further that Asclepius of Beirut was a youth who was fond of hunting.
Photius and 99
René Henry Photius Bibliothèque Tome IV: Codices 223-229 ( Association Guillaume Budé, Paris, 1965 ), pp. 48 – 99: Greek text with French translation
René Henry Photius Bibliothèque Tome IV: Codices 223-229 ( Association Guillaume Budé, Paris, 1965 ), pp. 48 – 99: Greek text with French translation
René Henry Photius Bibliotheque Tome IV: Codices 223-229 ( Association Guillaume Budé, Paris, 1965 ), pp. 48 – 99: Greek text with French translation
Photius and gives
* Logoi Paradoxoi, in 4 books, of which Photius also gives an account and specifies the respective titles of the books.
Photius and outline
The last is probably identical with the New History in six books ascribed by Photius to Ptolemy Hephaestion, of which a summary outline has been preserved in Photius ' Biblioteca ( cod.
Proclus, in his Chrestomathia, gave an outline of the poem ( preserved in Photius, cod.
His age was unknown even to Photius, who has preserved an outline of his romance.
Photius and work
It is clear that Photius and Evagrius had not more of the work than we have.
There may appear some difficulty at first sight, however, in the statement of Photius, that the work, in the form in which he saw it, appeared to him to be a second edition.
The Bibliotheca (, Bibliothēkē, " library "), in three books, provides a comprehensive summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends, " the most valuable mythographical work that has come down from ancient times ," Aubrey Diller observed, whose " stultifying purpose " was neatly expressed in the epigram noted by Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople:
The first mention of the work is by Photius.
The Patriarch Photius had the full work before him, as he mentions in his " account of books read " that it contained stories of the heroes of the Trojan War and the nostoi, missing in surviving manuscripts.
At the conclusion of his On the Erythraean Sea, he apologizes for being unable to complete his work " since our age is unable to similarly bear the toil " and " as a result of the disturbances in Egypt " he could no longer access the official records ( a fragment cited by Photius in his Bibliotheca Cod.
Although his work was superseded by more detailed accounts in the 2nd century AD, Photius found a copy of Erythraean Sea in the 10th century, from which he preserved extensive extracts in his Bibliotheca.
Both it and the original work are lost, with the exception of the excerpts in Photius and the Suda.
Gerald N. Sandy, in the introduction to his translation of Photius ' ninth-century summary of the work,
His chief work was the Olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad ( 776 BC to AD 137 ), of which several chapters are preserved in Eusebius ' Chronicle, Photius and George Syncellus.
Photius, criticizing the style of this work in words more or less applicable to all the remains of Theodore, notices the writer's opposition to the allegorical method of interpretation.
* Art of Arithmetic (), the larger work on arithmetic, mentioned by Photius.
Photius provides sufficient information about Proclus ' Chrestomathy to demonstrate that the Venetus A excerpt is derived from the same work.
The first appraisal of this work comes from Photius ' Bibliotheca, where we find: " the diction and composition are excellent, the style distinct, and the figures of speech, whenever they are employed, are well adapted to the purpose.
He contributed essays on the same work and on the Amphilochia of Photius to the Tüb.
The results of his twelve years of research in the history of the Greek Schism appeared finally in the classical work, Photius Patriarch von Constantinopel, sein Leben, seine Schriften, und das griechische Schisma ( 3 vols., Ratisbon, 1867-69 ).
The Byzantine scholar Photius, epitomizing an ancient work by the Greek author Ctesias ( Indica, L ), writes: " In Ethiopia there is an animal called crocottas, vulgarly kynolykos, of amazing strength.
Yet the fact that the patriarch Eulogius of Alexandria ( who probably lived 582-603 ) disputed successfully against the Samaritan followers of Dostan ( Δοσϑήν ) or Dositheus, and wrote a work expressly against them ( Photius, " Bibliotheca ," cod.
A lost work by Agaclytus describing Olympia () is referred to by the Suda and Photius.
What Photius in his Myrobiblion quotes from him, belongs probably to the former work.
Photius and on
Diodorus of Tarsus ( d. 394 ) may have argued for a flat Earth based on scriptures ; however, Diodorus ' opinion on the matter is known to us only by a criticism of it by Photius.
Eastern Orthodox Christians argue that thereby the council condemned not only the addition of the Filioque clause to the creed but also denounced the clause as heretical ( a view strongly espoused by Photius in his polemics against Rome ), while Roman Catholics separate the two and insist on the theological orthodoxy of the clause.
Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.
At this council Adrian was represented by legates who presided at the condemnation of Photius as a heretic, but did not succeed in coming to an understanding with Ignatius on the subject of jurisdiction over the Bulgarian church.
He had also opposed the arbitrary proceedings of the Archbishops of Bordeaux and Ravenna, and resisted the attacks which the Patriarch Photius made on the Holy See.
A few extracts from the five orations on Chrysostom were preserved by Photius ( codex 273 ).
We learn from Photius that the first book was preceded by a dissertation on the advantages of philosophy, an account of the different schools of philosophy, and a collection of the opinions of ancient writers on geometry, music, and arithmetic.
Consequently his commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, mentioned by the historian, Socrates Scholasticus and his epistles, mentioned by Philostorgius and Photius, are no longer extant.
Several other writings, especially one on providence and fate, a consolatory treatise dedicated to his patron Olympiodorus of Thebes, are quoted or referred to by Photius and Stobaeus.
The days on which the Pithoigia and Choës were celebrated were both regarded as ἀποφράδες ( nefasti, " unlucky ") and μιαραί (" defiled "), necessitating expiatory libations ; on them the souls of the dead came up from the underworld and walked abroad ; according to Photius, people chewed leaves of buckthorn and besmeared their doors with tar to protect themselves from evil.
Unhappy with Byzantine influence and desiring an autocephalous status which Photius was unwilling to grant, Boris sent an embassy to Nicholas with 106 questions on the teaching and discipline of the Church in August 866.
Pliny the Elder cited Ctesias and quoted Photius identifying the Chimera with an area of permanent gas vents which still can be found today by hikers on the Lycian Way in southwest Turkey.
It was once thought that there was another Byzantine writer of the same name, Michael Psellos the Elder ( now also called Pseudo-Psellos ), who lived on the island of Andros in the 9th century, and who was a pupil of Photius and teacher of emperor Leo VI the Wise.
The authors on which his time was mainly spent were the tragedians, Aristophanes, Athenaeus, and the lexicons of Suidas, Hesychius and Photius.
James Henry Monk, his successor as Greek professor, and Charles James Blomfield edited the Adversaria, consisting of the notes on Athenaeus and the Greek poets, and his prelection on Euripides ; Peter Paul Dobree, afterwards Greek professor, the notes on Aristophanes and the lexicon of Photius.
The case was remitted to the East, and by an imperial commission, dated October 26, 448, Uranius of Himeria, Photius of Tyre, who was elected September 9, 448, on the deposition of Irenaeus, and Eustathius of Beirut were deputed to hear it, and Damascius, the tribune and secretary of state, was dispatched as imperial commissioner.
The motion of deposition carried without objection, Eustathius of Beirut and Photius of Tyre, who had previously acquitted him on the same evidence, voting with the majority.
* Photius, " Bibliotheca " codex 97-the entry on Phlegon's Chronicles and List of Olympic Victors.
* In the East, the patriarch Photius responded to the practice of certain Frankish monks in Jerusalem who attempted to impose the practice of the Filioque on their Eastern brothers.
Perhaps most notable of these is his commentary on Genesis, which is cited by Cosmas Indicopleustes, John Philoponus, and Photius ( Cod.
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