John Malalas atau Ioannes Malalas (atau Malelas ) ( Yunani : Ἰωάννης Μαλάλας ) (c. 491 – 578 ) adalah seorang penulis kronik Bizantium yang berasal dari Antiokhia .
Malalas memperoleh pendidikan di Antiokhia dan pindah ke Konstantinopel pada masa kekuasaan Kaisar Yustinianus I . (kemungkinan setelah bangsa Persia menjarah Antiokhia tahun 540 [ 1 ] ). Ia menulis Chronographia ( Χρονογραφία ) dalam 18 buku (yang kini sebagian telah hilang).
Catatan kaki
- ^ Geoffrey Horrocks, Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers (Longman Linguistics Library, 1997: ISBN 0-582-30709-0 ), p. 180.
Bacaan lanjut
- E. Jeffreys, B. Croke, and R. Scott (eds.), Studies in John Malalas (Sydney: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1990) (Byzantina Australiensia, 6), pp. 1–25.
- David Woods, "Malalas, Constantius, and a Church-inscription from Antioch," Vigiliae Christianae , 59,1 (2005), pp. 54–62.
- J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz, "Malalas on Antioch," in Idem, Decline and Change in Late Antiquity: Religion, Barbarians and their Historiography (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006) (Variorum Collected Studies).
Pranala luar
- Translation of the 8th book of Malalas' Chronographia
- Greek Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca with analytical indexes
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1910 ed.), John Malalas "