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.

Photius, writing in the 9th century, found various text appended to manuscripts of the seven canonical books, which lead Daniel Heinsius to suggest that the original eighth book is lost, and he identified the text purported to be from the eighth book as fragments of the Hypopotoses.

Photius had already been declared deposed by the Pope, an act which the Church of Constantinople accepted at this council.

* the Apology for Origen, the first five books of which, according to the definite statement of Photius, were written by Pamphilus in prison, with the assistance of Eusebius.

to Photius, declaring the Filioque to be an addition which is rejected by the church of Rome, and a blasphemy which must be abolished calmly and by, degrees.

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.

Photius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, shortly after the council in which he had pronounced sentence of deposition against Pope Nicholas I, was driven from the patriarchate by a new emperor, Basil the Macedonian, who favoured his rival Ignatius.

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.

” As the Holy Apostolic See has made known to us that the blasphemous errors of a certain Photius against the Holy Ghost are still vigorous in the East, errors which teach that the Holy Spirit proceeds not from the Son but from the Father only we exhort you venerable brethren, together with us, in accordance with the admonition of the ruler of the Roman See, after a careful study of the works of the Fathers, to draw from the quiver of Holy Writ arrows sharp enough to slay the monster which is again springing into life .”

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 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.

Diodorus ' universal history, which he named Bibliotheca historica (" Historical Library "), was immense and consisted of 40 books, of which 1 – 5 and 11 – 20 survive: fragments of the lost books are preserved in Photius and the excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.

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.

515, and wrote his biography, part of which is preserved in the Bibliotheca of Photius.

Hence the charge of impiety which Photius brings against him.

Damascius's biography of his teacher Isidore ( perhaps a part of the philosophos historia attributed to Damascius by the Suda ), of which Photius has preserved a considerable fragment.

* Logoi Paradoxoi, in 4 books, of which Photius also gives an account and specifies the respective titles of the books.

Photius had before him a " new edition " of the history in which the passages most offensive to Christians were omitted.

Two years later he published the Lexicon of Photius from Porson's transcript of the Gale manuscript in Trinity College library, to which he appended a Lexicon rhetoricum, from the margin of a Cambridge manuscript of Harpocration.

The authors on which his time was mainly spent were the tragedians, Aristophanes, Athenaeus, and the lexicons of Suidas, Hesychius and Photius.

A considerable number of other works are given as Justin's by Arethas, Photius, and other writers ; but their spuriousness is now generally admitted.

The style is characterized by Photius as concise, clear and pure ; other historians have judged his accounts confused or muddled, and valuable only because he preserves information from lost histories.

Strabo, John Tzetzes, the Suda and Photius give other variations in speaking of this statue.

They had accepted the teaching of Paul of Samosata, though at a later period the name of Paul was believed to be that of the Apostle ; and they were not quite free from the Dualistic principle of the Gnostics, at a later period too much identified with the teaching of Mani, by Photius, Petrus Siculus, and other authors.

His library was divided into two parts, one of which was sold by auction ; the other, containing the transcript of the Gale Photius, his books with his notes, and some letters from foreign scholars, was bought by Trinity College for 1000 guineas.

In early 988, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople announced to other Orthodox patriarchs that the Rus ', baptised by his bishop, took to Christianity with particular enthusiasm.

A longer Epic Cycle, as described by the 9th-century CE scholar and clergyman Photius in his Bibliotheca, also included the Titanomachy and the Theban Cycle, which in turn comprised the Oedipodea, the Thebaid, the Epigoni and the Alcmeonis ; however, it is certain that none of the cyclic epics ( other than Homer ) survived to Photius ' day, and it is likely that Proclus and Photius were not referring to a canonical collection.

His works survive only in fragments preserved in Photius and the tenth century lexicographer Suidas.

This further indicates that the majority of the works cannot have been read while Photius was in the Abbasid empire.

He is referred to in the works of Aristotle, Stobaeus, Strabo, Hesychius, Photius, and Theano.

Very little is known about him as none of his works have survived, though he has been mentioned and discussed in detail by Photius ( in his Myriobiblion ) and Sextus Empiricus, and also to a lesser extent by Diogenes Laertius and Philo of Alexandria.

They are mentioned in the works of Photius, Patriarch Atticus ( 406 – 425 ), Theodotus of Antioch and Sisinnius.

Minor sources for the period include the works of Pompeius Trogus ( epitomized by Justinus ), Cornelius Nepos and Ctesias of Cnidus ( epitomized by Photius ), which are not in their original textual form.

His works survive only in fragments preserved in Photius and the 10th century lexicographer Suidas.

The philosophical works of Themistius must have been very voluminous ; for Photius tells us that he wrote commentaries on all the books of Aristotle, besides useful abstracts of the Posterior Analytics, the books On the Soul, and the Physics, and that there were works of his on Plato ; " and, in a word, he is a lover and eager student of philosophy.

Hergenröther was especially interested in the career of Photius and in the origins of the Greek Schism, and kept up continuous research in the principal libraries for manuscripts of the works of Photius, in order to exhibit the original materials in as perfect a text as could be established.

Patriarch Photius was irritated because " Hellenic studies are preferred over spiritual works ".

About the same time the broadly trained and energetic Photius, patriarch of the city and the greatest statesman of the Greek Church ( 820-897 ), enthusiastically collected forgotten manuscripts, revived forgotten works of antiquity, and re-discovered lost works ; his attention was chiefly directed to prose works, indicative of his pragmatism.

Photius made selections or excerpts from all the works he discovered, forming the beginning of his celebrated Biblitheca (" Library "), which while dry and schematic remains the most valuable literary compendium of the Middle Ages, containing trustworthy summaries of many ancient works now lost, together with good characterizations and analyses such as those of Lucian and Heliodorus.