MICHAEL

See also:

• MICHAEL GLYCAS

GLYCAS  , Byzantine historian (according to some a Sicilian, according to others a Corfiote), flourished during the 12th century A.U . His chief work is his Chronicle of events :1< 46 from the creation of the world to the death of Alexius I . Comnenus (1118) . It is extremely brief and written in a popular style, but too much space is devoted to theological and scientific matters . Glycas was also the author of a theological treatise and a number of letters on theological questions . A poem of some boo " political " verses, written during his imprisonment on a charge of slandering a neighbour and containing. an appeal to the emperor Manuel, is still extant . The exact nature of his offence is not known, but the answer to his appeal was that he was deprived of his eyesight by the emperor's orders . Editions: " Chronicle and Letters," in J . P . Migne, Patrologia Graeca, clviii.; poem in E . Legrand, Bibliothbque grecque vulgaire, i . ; see also F .

Hirsch, Byzanlinische Studien (1876) ; C . Krumbacher in Sitzungsberichte bayer . Acad., 1894; C . F . Bahr in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie .