Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

 

This group has morphed into a "working group" on John Malalas.  Why?  Several of us have research and exam-related interests, and (pace Barry Baldwin): "The work is important as the first Byz. universal chronicle; as such it exercised great influence, as it was also translated into Church Slavonic and Georgian. It is of great linguistic interest, written largely in an undemanding vernacular (presumably for a popular audience), a refreshing change from Atticist pretensions."  Byzantine Greek and unpretentious-ness: what could be better?  We are currently on about page 319 in Book 13 (text available in the Bonn Byzantine corpus, online from www.tlg.uci.edu).  We are meeting in my office (2102 Dwinelle) as it contains the relevant dictionaries, and also a hotpot for tea.