Quotes:Glycas, Michael

Zirkoff, Boris

Glycas, Michael. Byzantine historian, a native either of Constantinople or of Sicily. There are great doubts with regard to the time when he lived; some scholars think he flourished as late as the fifteenth century; others place him in the twelfth. It is certain, however, that he lived after 1118, because his Annals or Chronicle go down to the death of the emperor Alexis I Comnenus in that year. Glycas was probably an ecclesiastic, possessed an extensive amount of knowledge, and was proficient in several languages. His style is clear and concise, and he is placed among the better Byzantine historians. He was also the author of a treatise and a number of letters on theological subjects. Some offence committed by him against a neighbour resulted in his confinement, and it is said that he was deprived of his eye-sight by the emperor’s order. The best edition of his chief work is by I. Bekker, in the Bonn collection of the Byzantines, 1836.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 10, p. 417