Quotes:Syncellus, Georgius

Zirkoff, Boris

Syncellus, Georgius. Vide Vol. VII, pp. 398-99, of present Series for biogr. data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 545

Syncellus, Georgius (Georgios Synkellos). Byzantine chronicler and ecclesiastic, sometimes known as Abbas and Monachus, who lived in the latter part of the 8th and the beginning of the 9th century a.d. He was syncellus or personal attendant and cell-mate of Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople (d. 806). A man of great talent and vast learning, especially versed in chronographical and 399 historical subjects, he died without finishing his principal work, the completion of which he urged, as his dying request, upon his friend Theophanes. This work written in Greek was entitled: A Select Chronology, drawn up by George the Monk, Syncellus of Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Adam to Diocletian. He intended to bring this work down to the year 800, but did not go beyond 284 a.d. His Chronicle preserves fragments of ancient writers and apocryphal books, and includes verbatim considerable portions of Eusebius’ Chronicon. After Syncellus’ death, his work was completed by the Chronographia of Theophanes. The earlier edition was by J. Goar, 1652; the newer one by W. Dindorf is in Bonn, Corpus scriptorum hist. Byz., 1829. 2 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, pp. 398-399