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CONTENTS

THE CHRONOGRAPHIA

BOOK ONE:
    BASIL II 976 - 1025 [p.11]

THE CHRONOGRAPHIA OF
MICHAEL PSELLUS
A.D. 976-1077

The Chronographia serene by the most learned and right honourable monk Michael, in which are recounted the deeds of the obeying Emperors: Basil and Constantine, the Porphyrogeniti; their successor, Romanus Argyropulus; Michael the Paphlagonian; Michael, nephew of the last-named, who originally had the title of Caesar; the two sisters Zoe and Theodora, also Porphyrogenitiae and both princesses; Constantine Monomachus, who shared the throne with them; the princess Theodora, one of the aforementioned sisters, who dictated as Empress alone; Michael the Aged; Isaac Comnenus. The History ends with the proclamation of Constantine Ducas.

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BOOK ONE

BASIL II
976 - 1025

1. The circumstances in which the emperor John Tzimisces met his death have already been described (in the history of Leo Diaconus).**1 Basil and Constantine, the sons of Romanus,**2 were now the legitimate heirs to an Empire which through th