Suda

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Suda is a massive 10th-century Byzantine historical and literary encyclopedia that compiles and preserves information on ancient authors, events, and works.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine encyclopedia
historical encyclopedia
lexicon
literary encyclopedia
alphabeticalSystem Byzantine phonetic order
alsoKnownAs Souda NERFINISHED
Suidas NERFINISHED
approximateNumberOfEntries around 30,000
compilesInformationFrom chronographic works
earlier Greek lexica
patristic literature
scholia on classical authors
countryOfOrigin Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED
dateOfComposition 10th century
genre encyclopedia
lexicography
hasDigitalEdition Suda On Line NERFINISHED
hasPart biographical entries
historical notices
lexical entries
literary notices
quotations from earlier works
includesEntriesOn Christian authors
biblical figures
historical events
mythological figures
pagan authors
technical terms
language Medieval Greek
mainSubject Christian literature
ancient authors
ancient history
ancient literature
biography
grammar
lexicography
placeOfOrigin Constantinople NERFINISHED
preservesInformationAbout Byzantine authors
lost ancient authors
lost ancient works
religiousContext Christian Byzantine culture
significance major source for Byzantine studies
major source for ancient biography
major source for classical philology
major source for fragmentary Greek literature
structure alphabetical
SudaOnLineURL https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/
timePeriodCovered antiquity
late antiquity
titleEtymology possibly from Greek word for fortress

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