33. MONACHUS, or THE
MONK.
Works
Many MSS. preserved in the various European libraries bear the name of George the Monk as
the author. Great perplexity has been occasioned by the vagueness of the designation, and its
applicability to various persons of the name of George, but who are usually identified by
some additional designation.
ChroniconThere is extant in MS. a
Chronicon of George the Monk. whom
some have identified, but there is reason to think incorrectly. with George Hamartolus [No.
27], or George Moschampar [No. 34], or with the author of the
Vitae Recentior.
Imperatorum mentioned below.
Scholia in Divisionem RhetoricaeGeorgius Monus, or George the Monk, who wrote
Scholia in Divisionem
Rhetoricae, may possibly be the Georgius Grammaticus already noticed [No. 25], but
this is only conjecture.
Epitome PhilosophiaeThe Georgius Monachus, of whom a little work,
Epitome
Philosophiae, is extant in MS., is probably the Georgius or Gregorius Aneponmus, or
Peripateticus mentioned below [No. 41]. (Fabric.
Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p.
685, vol. xi. p. 629; Allatius,
ibid. p. 120.)
Vitae Recentium ImperatorumA George the Monk is the author of a work, Βίοι τῶν νέων
Βασιλέων,
Vitae Recentium Imperatorum, included in
the published collections of the Byzantine historians. This work is the second part of a
Chronicon apparently quite different from that mentioned
above. It is chiefly taken from the Chronographia of George Syncellus [No. 46], and extends
from the reign of Leo the Armenian to the death of Romanus Lecapenus, from A. D. 813 to
A. D. 948.