Zonaras, JOANNES

Zonaras, JOANNES, a historian who flourished at Constantinople in the 12th century, was private secretary to Alexius I. Comnenus, and spent the last years of his life in the monastery of St Elijah at Mount Athos. His chief work, the Chronicon, is a poor compilation giving the history of the world from the creation to the death of Alexius in 1118. It was edited by Wolf (1557), Du Fresne (1686), Pinder (2 vols. 1841-44), and Dindorf (6 vols. 1868-75). Zonaras wrote also on the Syntagma of Photius, scholia to the New Testament, &c.