The autobiography is something like a preface to the author's collection of works.
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Since the island of Cyprus was conquered in 1191 by the English king Richard the Lionheart, Matthie dates the arrival of Gregory in Kallinikis to 1250 or 1251.
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Byzantine writers usually called the Greeks Romans (Romans) and used the epithet "Roman" as a synonym for "Greek", but here the author evidently uses it as a synonym for "Latin".
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According to Stephen of Byzantium, it was a place in Caria, located directly opposite the island of Samos (note - Matthie).
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The famous ascetic and philosopher, teacher of the emperor Theodore Lascaris the Younger and the Byzantine historian George Acropolites, is known for his originality of character and many works of theological and philosophical content, which have remained largely unpublished to this day.
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The monastery of Blemmydes was called Imathia (Ἠμάθιοι) and was located near Ephesus.
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The attempt of Emperor Michael Palaiologos to take Constantinople from the Latins, mentioned here, dates back to the spring of 1260. the chronicle of the great Logoeth George Acropolites, in Russian. transl. pp. 203–205.
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July 25, 1261
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A well-known historian and statesman, who left us a "Chronicle" of the most important events of his time (translated into Russian and published at the St. Petersburg Dukh. Academy in 1863) and took an active part in all the most important affairs under the emperors Theodore Lascaris the Younger (1255-1259) and Michael Palaiologos (1259-1281) and, by the way, in the Union of Lions, which he accepted at the Council of Lyons in 1274 in the name of Emperor Michael as his plenipotentiary representative at this council. In addition to the chronicle, several other works of theological content have survived from it, and among them they read — λόγοι δυο περι τῆς εκπορεύσεως του αγίου Πνεύματος, of which the 1st extensive one was published by Fr. Andronik Dimitrakopoulos together with other hitherto unpublished theological works by various writers in the first volume of his collection under the title: Bibliotheca ecclesiastica continens Graecorum theologorum opera, Lipsiae 1866, based on the manuscript of the Moscow Synodal Library. The second word on the same subject, as well as other works of Acropolites, both theological and philosophical, remain in manuscripts to this day. Cm. about them Fabricii, Biblioth. Graeca t. VII p. 770 ed. Harles and Oudini Commentarius de scriptor. ecclesiasticis t. III p. 465–467.
Gregory of Cyprus afterwards honored his former teacher with a eulogy for the funeral, which unfortunately had not yet been published.
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