Editing Suda (section)

===Biographical notices===
This [[lexicon]] contains numerous biographical notices on political, ecclesiastical, and literary figures of the Byzantine Empire to the tenth century, those biographical entries being condensations from the works of [[Hesychius of Miletus]], as the author himself avers. Other sources were the encyclopedia of [[Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus]] (reigned 912–959) for the figures in ancient history, excerpts of [[John of Antioch (chronicler)|John of Antioch]] (seventh century) for [[History of Rome|Roman history]], the chronicle of [[George Hamartolus|Hamartolus]] ([[George Hamartolos|Georgios Monachos]], 9th century) for the Byzantine age{{sfnp|Herbermann|1913}}{{sfnp|Chisholm|1911}}{{Refn|[[Karl Krumbacher]] concluded the two main biographical sources were "Constantine VII for ancient history, Hamartolus (Georgios Monarchos) for the Byzantine age".<ref>Krumbacher, Karl (1897), ''Byzantinische Literatur'', p. 566, cited by {{harvp|Herbermann|1913}}</ref>}}, the biographies of [[Diogenes Laërtius]], and the works of [[Athenaeus]] and [[Philostratus]]. Other principal sources include a lexicon by "[[Eudemus of Rhodes|Eudemus]]," perhaps derived from the work ''On Rhetorical Language'' by Eudemus of Argos.<ref>Krumbacher, Karl, ''Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=hRtZVWDfBw8C&pg=PA268 pp. 268f.]</ref>