Byzantine Historians
...dates in parentheses are the periods covered. The list does not make the traditional distinction between historian and annalist; though this can generally be conjectured by the scope of their work.
Fourth Century
- Eusebios of Caesarea (Adam to late third century; church history to 324) - Ammianus Marcellinus (96 - 378; 353 - 378 survives)
Fifth Century
- Eunapios of Sardis (270-404) - Olympidoros of Thebes (407-27) - Zosimos (Augustus-410, full from Diocletian) - Sokrates Scholastikos (306-439) - Sozomenos (324-440) - Priskos (433-468) - Theodoret of Cyrrhus (325-428) - Candidus of Isauria (457 - 491, acc. to Photius) - Malchus of Philadelphia (Amman) (473/4 - 480 (acc. to Photius) 324 - 491 (acc. to Suda)) - Philostorgius of Borissus (312 - 425) - John the Rhetor (Adam - 563)
Sixth Century
- Prokopios (Justinian's reign to 552) - Agathias of Myrina (552-559) - Evagrius (431-594) - John of Epiphaneia (572- ) - Theodoros Anagnostes (450 - 518) - Theophanes of Byzantium - Menander Protector (557/8-582) - Count Marcellinus (379 - 534; anonymous continuation to 566) - Nonnosus - John the Lydian - Peter the Patrician - Hesychius of Miletus (founding of Nineveh - 518; 518 - 527) - Eustathius of Epiphania (Adam - Troy) (Troy - AD 503)
Seventh Century
- Theophylact Simocatta (582-602) - Chronicon Paschale (Adam - 628) - John of Nikiou (Adam - Arab Conquest of Egypt)
Eighth century
Ninth Century
- Nikephoros (602-769; Adam - 829) - Theophanes the Confessor (284-813, essential for 602-813) - George Monachos (Adam to 842)
Tenth Century
- Joseph Genesios (2nd iconclast period and to 886) - Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos - John Kaminatos (Arab sack of 904) - Leo the Deacon (959-976) - Vita Euthymii patriarchae (Anonymous) - Theophanes Continuatus (813-963) - Symeon the Logothete (Adam to 948 (some versions go to 11th cent))
Eleventh Century
- Michael Psellos (976-1078) - Michael Attaliates (1034-1079) - Anna Komnena (1069-1118) - Nicephoras Bryennios (1057-1080) - John Skylitzes (811 -1057) - Skylitzes Continuatos (1057-1079) - George Kedrenos ( -1057)
Twelfth Century
- John Kinnamos (1118-1176) - Eustathios of Thessalonica (1185) - Niketas Choniates (1118-1207) - John Zonaras (Adam - 1118) - Constantine Manassas (Adam - 1081) - Michael Glykas (Adam - 1118)
Thirteenth Century
- George Akropolites (1203-1261) - Joel (Adam - 1204) - Theodoros Skutariotes (Adam - 1261) - Chronicle of Morea (First Crusade, then 1202-1292) - Michael Panaretos (3-15th cent. in Trebizond)
Fourteenth Century
- George Pachymeres (1255-1308) - Nikephoras Gregoras (1204-1359) - John Kantakuzenos (1320-1357) - The Short Chronicle of Lesbos (Dennis, G.T. trans.) (1355 - 1428) - Short Chronicle (Charanis, Peter in Byzantion 13) - Short Chronicle (Lampros, S.P. & K. Amantos in Brachea Chronika No. 27)
Fifteenth Century
- Symeon (Archbishop of Thessalonike) - Leontios Makhairos (esp. 1359-1432) - John Kananos (Murad II's 1422 attack on Constantinople) - John Anagnostes (Capture of Thessalonica 1430) - Laonikos Chalkokondyles (Adam to Ottom beginnings in 1299, then 1298-1463 in detail) - Doukas (1341-1462) - (Historia Turco-Byzantina) - George Sphrantzes (1413-1477 ) - Michael Kritovoulos (1451-1467) - Sylvester Syropoulos (1438-39) - Anonymous Chronicle (Loernertz, R-J, ed. and trans. in Melanges Eugene Tisserunt II, Studi e Testi 232) (1423)
Post Byzantine period
- Ekthesis chronike synometera syntethesia en haploteti lexeon (Anonymous) (1391-1543) - Chronikon peri ton Tourkon soultanon (Codex Barberinus Graecus 111, Anonymous) (1373-1513)
Sources:
Treadgold, W. T. (2007). The early Byzantine historians. Basingstoke England: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1403934584.
Halsall, Paul (1997) The Grand Tradition of Byzantine Historiography http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/texts/byzhistorio.html