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Joannes (John) Zonaras (
Greek: Ιωάννης Ζωναράς;
fl. 12th century) was a
Byzantine chronicler and
theologian, who lived at
Constantinople.
Under Emperor
Alexius I Comnenus he held the offices of commander of the bodyguard and private secretary to the emperor, but in the succeeding reign he retired to
Hagia Glykeria (one of the
Princes' Islands), where he spent the rest of his life in writing books.
His most important work,
Extracts of History (Επιτομή Ιστορίων), in eighteen books, extends from the creation of the world to the death of Alexius (
1118). The earlier part is largely drawn from
Josephus; for Roman history he chiefly followed
Cassius Dio, whose first twenty books are not otherwise known to us. His history was continued by
Nicetas Acominatus.
Various ecclesiastical works have been attributed to Zonaras — commentaries on the Fathers and the poems of
Gregory of Nazianzus; lives of Saints; and a treatise on the Apostolical Canons — and there's no reason to doubt their genuineness. The lexicon, however, which has been handed down under his name (ed.
J. A. H. Tittmann 1808) is probably the work of a certain
Antonius Monachus (Stein's
Herodotus, ii. 479 f.).
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