John Antonacos

Noted Greeks of the Middle Ages John Antonacos

The Byzantine Greeks continuedthe spectacular ancient Greek civilization for another thousand years.¿ Like their forefathers, they were involved inevery art and science.¿ Approximately 250key personalities contributed greatly to Byzantine culture.¿ This book describes the known work of thesemedieval personalities. There are various books that givethe lives of the more famous of these medieval Greeks.¿ There are a number of biographicaldictionaries that give one-line descriptions of more of these medievalpersonalities.¿ This book, though, is anattempt to describe the major points about all Medieval Greek personalities ofwhich anything is known.¿ It is a handyencyclopedia in which one can quickly find the salient features of any MedievalGreek personality. Each article in this book has thefollowing order:¿ the personality's nameis stated, this is followed by his birth and death years or whatever of thesecan be approximated.¿ The first sentenceof the text gives the areas in which the personality was active and hisbirthplace if known.¿ This is followed bya description of whatever is known about the character and life of thepersonality.¿ The article concludes withthe material or intellectual accomplishments of the personality.