The Suda or Souda () is a massive 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Suidas.

He may have belonged to the Greek nobility of the Attica deme called the Eupatridae, with which the 10th-century Suda text records him as contemporaneous, prior to the period of the Seven Sages of Greece.

The Suda lists the ancient canon of Greek bucolic poets as Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, which should reflect chronogical order, and Moschus flourished in the mid 2nd century BC.

" The Suda credits him also with inventing " the third note of the lyre " ( which is known to be wrong since the lyre had seven strings from the 7th century ), and four letters of the Greek alphabet.

There are several accounts of his life by anonymous Greek writers, and the Suda and Eudocia also mention him.

The characteristic mark of the vow, as the Suda and the Greek Church Fathers remark, was that it was a promise either of things to be offered to God in the future and at once consecrated to Him in view of their being so offered, or of austerities to be undergone.

Alexander Numenius ( Gr. ), or ( according to the Suda ) Alexander, son of Numenius, was a Greek rhetorician who flourished in the first half of the 2nd century.

It was commonly attributed to Homer, as by Aristotle ( Poetics 13. 92 ): " His Margites indeed provides an analogy: as are the Iliad and Odyssey to our tragedies, so is the Margites to our comedies "; but the work, among a mixed genre of works loosely labelled " Homerica " in Antiquity, was more reasonably attributed to Pigres, a Greek poet of Halicarnassus, in the massive medieval Greek encyclopedia called Suda.

According to the Suda, the massive tenth century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia, he was the son of Socles, but was adopted by Lycus of Rhegium.

Much later, the Byzantine Greek encyclopedia, Suda ( 10th century?

He is further called an epic poet by the Suda, and three epigrams in the Greek Anthology are assigned to him.

Chalcondyles published the first printed editions of Homer ( in 1488 ), of Isocrates ( in 1493 ), and of the Suda lexicon ( in 1499 ), and a Greek grammar ( Erotemata ).

The Suda ( a 10th century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia of known inaccuracy ) states that Pappus was of the same age as Theon of Alexandria, who flourished in the reign of Emperor Theodosius I ( 372 – 395 AD ).

The Suda also ascribes to the author a work on the sphere ( in Greek ), a fragment of which, professing to be an introduction to the Phaenomena of Aratus, may still be extant ( in Greek ).

From Byzantine texts however it appears that the correct form is Gate of Rhesios (), named according to the 10th-century Suda lexicon after an ancient general of Greek Byzantium.

There is little known about the life of Tryphiodorus other than the notice of him in the Greek lexicon or encyclopedia the Suda.

According to the Suda, Coluthus, often Colluthus, of Lycopolis in the Egyptian Thebaid, was an epic poet writing in Greek, who flourished during the reign of Anastasius I ( 491-518 ).

In view of the general tradition of antiquity, that both treatises were the work of Menander, it is possible that the author of the second was not identical with the Menander mentioned by the Suda ; since the name is of frequent occurrence in later Greek literature.

The Suda, a tenth century encyclopedia of Greek knowledge, says: " the proverb is applied to those whose boasts exceed what they are ,"< ref >' Know Thyself ' as an admonition, in " Know Thyself.

The Suda ascribes to him historical commentaries ( in Greek ιστoρικά απoμνηατα ) and a work on rhetoric ( in Greek τέχνη ρητoρική ).

The Suda, a 10th century Medieval Greek historical encyclopedia, describes the novel as having ten books when the version we have is divided into five.

This theory is based on the absence of any mention of cavalry in Herodotus ' account of the battle, and an entry in the Suda dictionary.

Nutton believes that " On Theriac to Piso " is genuine, the Arabic sources are correct and that the Suda has erroneously interpreted the 70 years of Galen's career in the Arabic tradition as referring to his whole lifespan.

Moreover, the fact that the Suda is the only source we have for the heroic role played by Herodotus, as liberator of his birthplace, is itself a good reason to doubt such a romantic account.

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.

* 1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk.

Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius ' life is an entry in the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia that tells nothing about his early life.

The Suda is alone in claiming that Sappho was married to a " very wealthy man called Cercylas, who traded from Andros " and that he was Cleïs ' father.

Porphyry and Iamblichus refer to a biography of Pythagoras by Apollonius, which has not survived ; it is also mentioned in the Suda.

Another explanation, in the Suda ( 10th century ), is that " He was called Trismegistus on account of his praise of the trinity, saying there is one divine nature in the trinity.

Simonides is identified in the Suda as the son of a Leoprepes.

The Suda is somewhere between a grammatical dictionary and an encyclopedia in the modern sense.

Although the work is uncritical and probably much interpolated, and the value of its articles is very unequal, the Suda contains much useful information on ancient history and life.

The system is not difficult to learn and remember, but some editors — for example, Immanuel Bekker -- rearranged the Suda alphabetically.

She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes ( Leipzig, 1928 – 1938 ).

In the ancient manuscripts of his work, he is invariably referred to as " Laertius Diogenes ," and this form of the name is repeated by Sopater, and the Suda.

In the Byzantine encyclopedia called the Suda, Talos is said, when the Sardinians did not wish to release him to Minos, to have heated himself – by jumping into a fire and to have clasped them in his embrace.

A goddess Macaria is named in the Suda.

His influence on philosophical thinking lasted until the Middle Ages, as is shown by citation in the Suda, the massive medieval lexicon.

Plutarch explicitly states that Eurydice was an Illyrian, so does Libanius and thus is stated in the massive 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, Suda.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

Information about Hippocrates can also be found in the writings of Aristotle, which date from the 4th century BC, in the Suda of the 10th century AD, and in the works of John Tzetzes, which date from the 12th century AD.

The Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopædia, dates her to the 42nd Olympiad ( 612 / 608 BC ), meaning either that she was born then or that this was her floruit.

A page from a 16th-century edition of the 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Suda.

It would thus appear that the Suda was compiled in the latter part of the 10th century.

Another explanation, in the Suda ( 10th century ), is that " He was called Trismegistus on account of his praise of the trinity, saying there is one divine nature in the trinity ".

A page from a 16th-century edition of the 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Suda.

Further scattered details can be found in Pausanias's Description of Greece, while the Byzantine Suda dictionary of the 10th century AD preserves some anecdotes found nowhere else.

In the 10th century, the author of the Suda used alphabetic order with phonetic variations.

Christian writers after Eusebius are probably reliant on him, but include Pseudo-Justinus ( 3rd – 5th century ), Hesychius of Alexandria ( 5th century ), Agathias ( 536 – 582 ), Moses of Chorene ( 8th century ), an unknown geographer of unknown date, and the Suda ( Byzantine dictionary from the 10th century ).

Though no name of a philosophical work by him is known, according to the Suda, the 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, he wrote a treatise on the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, but nothing of them has survived.

The Suda is a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, incorporating earlier material.

The 10th Century Byzantine Encyclopedia the Suda, recognized Chilon < ref >< http :// www. stoa. org / sol-entries / gamma / 333 ></ ref > and Thales < ref >< http :// www. stoa. org / sol-entries / theta / 17 >.</ ref > as the sources of the maxim " Know Thyself.

A useful example is provided by the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia, here reproduced in an English translation from a Loeb edition.