Editing George Pachymeres (section)

==Biography==
Pachymeres was born at [[İznik|Nicaea]], in [[Bithynia]], where his father had taken refuge after the capture of [[Constantinople]] by the Latins in 1204. Upon the recovery of Constantinople from the [[Latin Empire]] by [[Michael VIII Palaeologus]], Pachymeres settled there, studied law, entered the church, and subsequently became chief advocate of the church and chief justice of the imperial court.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=433}}

His literary activity was considerable, his most important work being a Byzantine history in thirteen books, in continuation of that of [[George Acropolites]] from 1261 to 1308, containing the history of the reigns of [[Michael VIII Palaeologus|Michael]] and [[Andronicus II Palaeologus]]. Pachymeres was also the author of [[rhetoric]]al exercises on philosophical themes; of a ''[[Quadrivium]]'' (arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the [[Middle Ages]]; a general sketch of [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]] philosophy; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of [[Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite]]; poems, including an autobiography; and a description of the square of the ''[[Augustaeum]]'', and the [[Column of Justinian|column]] erected by [[Justinian I|Justinian]] in the church of [[Hagia Sophia]] to commemorate his victories over the [[Persian Empire|Persians]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=433}}{{sfn|Neville|2018}}

The ''History'' was first published in print by [[August Immanuel Bekker|I. Bekker]] (1835) in the ''[[Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae]]''; also by [[Jacques Paul Migne|J. P. Migne]], in ''[[Patrologia Graeca]]'' (vol. cxliii, cxliv); for editions of the minor works see [[Karl Krumbacher]], ''Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur'' (1897).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=433}} A more recent edition with French translation of the ''History'' by [[Albert Failler]] (editor) and [[Vitalien Laurent]] (translator) was published in 1984. An English translation of Books I and II (up to the recovery of Constantinople in 1261), with commentary, exists in the form of a Ph.D. thesis by Nathan John Cassidy held in the Reid Library of the University of Western Australia.{{sfnm|1a1=Failler|1y=1984a|2a1=Failler|2y=1984b}}{{sfn|Cassidy|2004}}