- Joseph Genesius
Genesius ( _el. Γενἐσιος, "Genesios") is the conventional name given to the anonymous
Byzantine author of thetenth century chronicle, "On the reign of the emperors". His first name is sometimes given as Joseph, combining him with a "Joseph Genesius" quoted in the preamble toJohn Skylitzes .Composed at the court of
Constantine VII , the chronicle opens in 814, covers the period and ends in 886. It presents the events largely from the view of the Macedonian dynasty, though with a skew less marked than the authors ofTheophanes Continuatus , a collection of mostly anonymous chronicles meant to continue the work ofTheophanes the Confessor .The chronicle describes the reigns of the four emperors from Leo V down to
Michael III in detail; and more briefly that ofBasil I . It uses Constantine VII's "Life of Basil" as a source, though it appears to have been finished before Theophanes Continuatus, and gives information present in neither Continuatus nor Skylitzes.References
*"English"
**Genesios, Joseph, A. Kaldellis. (trans.) "On the reigns of the emperors." Byzantina Australiensia, 11. Canberra: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1998. ISBN 095936269X.
*"Greek"
**A. Lesmüller-Werner, and H. Thurn, "Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae", Vol. XIV, Series Berolinensis. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973. ISSN|0589-8048.
*"Secondary"
**Alexander Kazhdan (ed.), "The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium", 3 vols., Oxford University Press, 1991, vol. 2, 828-829, s. v. Genesios. ISBN 0195046528.*Translation/Ref|fr|Génésios|oldid=30274581
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