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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 461 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALALAS (or MALELAS) (See also:Syriac for " orator "), See also:JOHN (c. 491-578)  , See also:Byzantine chronicler, was See also:born at See also:Antioch . He wrote a Xpovo'ypacga in 18 books, the beginning and the end of which are lost . In its See also:present See also:state it begins with the mythical See also:history of See also:Egypt and ends with the expedition to See also:Africa under See also:Marcianus, the See also:nephew of Justinian . Except for the history of Justinian and his immediate predecessors, it possesses little See also:historical value; it is written without any See also:idea of proportion and contains astonishing blunders . The writer is a supporter of See also:Church and State, an upholder of monarchical principles . The See also:work is rather a See also:chronicle written See also:round Antioch, which he regarded as the centre of the See also:world, and (in the later books) round See also:Constantinople . It is, however, important as the first specimen of a chronicle written not for the learned but for the instruction of the monks and the See also:common See also:people, in the See also:language of the vulgar, with an admixture of Latin and See also:Oriental words . It obtained See also:great popularity, and was conscientiously exploited by various writers until the filth See also:century, being translated even into the See also:Slavonic See also:languages . It is preserved in an abridged See also:form in a single MS. now at See also:Oxford . For the authorities consulted by See also:Malalas, the See also:influence of his work on Slavonic and Oriental literature, the state of the See also:text, the See also:original form and extent of the work, the date of its See also:composition, the relation of the concluding See also:part to the whole, and the literature of the subject, see C . See also:Krumbacher's Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897) . See also the editio princeps, by E .

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essay by See also:Humphrey See also:Hody and See also:Bentley's well-known See also:letter to See also:Mill; other See also:editions in the See also:Bonn Corpus scriptorum hist. byz., by L . See also:Dindorf (1831), and in J . P . See also:Migne Patrologia graeca, xcvii .

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