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George Synkellos’ Palestinian Connection and the Greek Chronicle Tradition

    Patricia VARONA

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 73, pp. 299-316, 2024/03/06

doi: 10.1553/joeb73s299

doi: 10.1553/joeb73s299

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doi:10.1553/joeb73s299



doi:10.1553/joeb73s299

Abstract

The hypothesis about George Synkellos’ Syro-Palestinian origins relates in a confused way to that of the lost Eastern source of Theophanes, to the hypothesis that the chronicle attributed to Theophanes was in fact written by Synkellos, and to the hypothesis about Syriac mediation in the transmission of the Greek chronicle tradition throughout the so-called Dark Ages. The current state of research calls for a new look at this situation and invites us to reexamine from a different perspective the history of the Greek chronicle tradition in Byzantium.

Keywords: George Synkellos; Theophanes Confessor; Byzantine Chronography; Byzantine Chronicle