This volume reprints with translation and commentary the Histories of Nicéphorus Bryennius, the rhetorical works of Procopius Gazi, two works by Theodoros Pydasimos, and lives of the saints George the Chozibite, Anthony the New, Saint Demetrianus Bishop of Chytria, and Saint Nicator of Thebes. These texts are particularly significant for the history of the early and middle Byzantine period.

The book is useful not only for students of Philosophy but also for every reader who wishes to make an initial contact with Byzantine prose and to get acquainted up close with certain basic forms of Byzantine literature by reading complete texts and not just short excerpts.

Ioannis Politis
Translation, Texts, Preface, Notes: Ioannis Politis