George Syncellus
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George Syncellus
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George Syncellus was a Byzantine chronicler and ecclesiastical official. He lived many years in Palestine as a monk, before coming to Constantinople, where he was appointed synkellos to Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople. He later retired to a monastery to write what was intended to be his great work, a chronicle of world history, Ekloge chronographias, or Extract of Chronography. According to Anastasius Bibliothecarius, George "struggled valiantly against heresy [i.e. Iconoclasm] and receive
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9th century Byzantine historian, philosopher and writer
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