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MICHAEL GLYCAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 146 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL GLYCAS  ,
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Byzantine historian (according to some a Sicilian, according to others a Corfiote), flourished during the 12th century A.U . His chief
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work is his Chronicle of events :1< 46 from the creation of the
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world to the
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death of Alexius I .
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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
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treatise and a number of letters on theological questions . A poem of some boo "
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political " verses, written during his imprisonment on a charge of slandering a neighbour and containing. an
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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 .
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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 .
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Bahr in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie .

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