Leon Grammatikos

Leon Grammatikos was a Byzantine chronicler writing in the early 11th century .

Leon was the compiler (or editor) of a chronicle reaching up to 948, which he had finished editing in 1013, as can be seen from a note in Codex Parisinus graecus 1711 . This is a reworking of a chronicle called Logothetenchronik and partly attributed to Symeon Metaphrastes , but this is controversial. There is no further information about Leon himself. In more recent research it is even regarded as a fictional name for that version of the logothetical chronicle.

At the end of the 19th century, the Byzantinist Edwin Patzig was able to identify several sources in the history of Johannes Zonaras for the period after 229, up to which Johannes relied on Cassius Dio . Patzig gave a source line the name Leoquelle due to similarities with the Chronicle of Leon . The correspondence of passages in Leon (and also in Georgios Kedrenos ) with Zonaras can be traced back to material from a common source, which also contained material from pagan historical works from late antiquity . This material was communicated to Georgios Kedrenos and Leon (or their originals) via an epitome from the 7th century, i.e. a summarizing history. However, Zonaras must have resorted directly to the more detailed source of the epitome , the said Leo source ; this could ultimately have been the lost histories of Petros Patrikios .

expenditure

Immanuel Bekker (Ed.): Leonis Grammatici Chronographia . Bonn 1842 ( online here ).

Remarks

↑ In general, see Herbert Hunger : Die hochsprachliche Profane Literatur der Byzantiner . Vol. 1, Munich 1978, p. 354.
↑ Cf. Bruno Bleckmann : Fragments of pagan historiography on the work of Julians . In: Andreas Goltz, Hartmut Leppin (Hrsg.): Beyond the borders. Contributions to late antique and early medieval historiography . Berlin 2009, pp. 61–77, here p. 73, note 54.
↑ Bruno Bleckmann: The Chronicle of Johannes Zonaras and a pagan source on the history of Constantine . In: Historia 40 (1991), pp. 343-365.
↑ Cf. Bruno Bleckmann: The Imperial Crisis of III. Century in late antique and Byzantine historiography. Investigations on the post-Dionic sources of the Chronicle of Johannes Zonaras . Munich 1992 and Bruno Bleckmann: Comments on the Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus . In: Historia 44 (1995), pp. 83-99.

personal data
SURNAME	Leon Grammatikos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century
DATE OF DEATH	11th century

[1] In general, see Herbert Hunger : Die hochsprachliche Profane Literatur der Byzantiner . Vol. 1, Munich 1978, p. 354.

[2] Cf. Bruno Bleckmann : Fragments of pagan historiography on the work of Julians . In: Andreas Goltz, Hartmut Leppin (Hrsg.): Beyond the borders. Contributions to late antique and early medieval historiography . Berlin 2009, pp. 61–77, here p. 73, note 54.

[3] Bruno Bleckmann: The Chronicle of Johannes Zonaras and a pagan source on the history of Constantine . In: Historia 40 (1991), pp. 343-365.

[4] Cf. Bruno Bleckmann: The Imperial Crisis of III. Century in late antique and Byzantine historiography. Investigations on the post-Dionic sources of the Chronicle of Johannes Zonaras . Munich 1992 and Bruno Bleckmann: Comments on the Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus . In: Historia 44 (1995), pp. 83-99.