page_title: Nicephorus Gregoras
section_title: Writings
hierarchical_section_title: Nicephorus Gregoras / Writings
caption_attribution_description: English: Nicephorus Gregoras, Byzantine polymath of 14th century
context_page_description: Nicephorus Gregoras was a Byzantine astronomer, historian, and theologian.
context_section_description: Gregoras' chief work is his Byzantine History, in 37 books, covering the years 1204 to 1359. It partly supplements and partly continues the work of George Pachymeres. Gregoras shows considerable industry, but his style is pompous and affected. This work and that of John Cantacuzene supplement and correct each other, and should be read together.
  The other writings of Gregoras, which (with a few exceptions) still remain unpublished, attest his great versatility. Amongst them may be mentioned a history of the dispute with Palamas; biographies of his uncle and early instructor John, metropolitan of Heraclea, and of the martyr Codratus of Antioch; funeral orations for Theodore Metochites, and the two emperors Andronicus; commentaries on the wanderings of Odysseus and on Synesius's treatise on dreams; tracts on orthography and on words of doubtful meaning; a philosophical dialogue called Phlorentius or Concerning Wisdom; astronomical treatises on the date of Easter, on  the preparation of the astrolabe and on the predictive calculation of solar eclipses; and an extensive correspondence.
  Editions: in Bonn Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, by L. Schopen and I. Bekker, with life and list of works by J. Boivin (1829–1855); J. P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxlviii., cxlix.; see also Karl Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).
caption: Nikiforos Gregoras
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