Menander Protector (문서 활동)

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r109753위키백과봇2026-10-15	1	Menander Protector (Menander the Guardsman, Menander the Byzantian; [[Greek language\|Greek]]: Μένανδρος Προτήκτωρ or Προτέκτωρ) was a [[Byzantine Empire\|Byzantine]] [[Historian\|historian]], born in [[Constantinople]] in the middle of the 6th century AD. The little that is known of his life is contained in the account of himself quoted in the [[Suda]] (Mu, 591: Μένανδρος). Menander mentions his father Euphratas, who came from Byzantium, and his brother Herodotus. He at first took up the study of law, but abandoned it for a life of pleasure. When his fortunes were low, the patronage accorded to literature by the Emperor [[Maurice (emperor)\|Maurice]], at whose court he was a military officer (hence the epithet Protector, which denotes his military function), encouraged him to try writing history.
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	3	Menander took as his model [[Agathias]], who, like him, had been a jurist, and his history begins at the point where Agathias leaves off. It embraces the period from the arrival of the [[Kutrigurs]] in [[Thrace]] during the reign of [[Justinian I\|Justinian]] in 558, to the death of the emperor [[Tiberius II Constantine\|Tiberius]] in 582. Considerable fragments of the work are preserved in the [[Constantinian Excerpts\|Excerpts]] of [[Constantine Porphyrogenitus]] and in the Suda. Although the style is sometimes bombastic, he is considered trustworthy and is one of the most valuable authorities for the history of the 6th century, especially on geographical and ethnographical matters. Menander was an eye-witness of some of the events he describes. Like Agathias, he wrote epigrams, one of which, on a Persian [[Magus\|magus]] who became a convert to [[Christianity]] and died the death of a martyr, is preserved in the [[Greek Anthology]] (i.101).
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	5	Fragments of his work can be found in:
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	7	- [[Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller\|C. W. Müller]], Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, 4, 200
	8	- [[Jacques Paul Migne\|J. P. Migne]], [[Patrologia Graeca]], 113
	9	- [[L. Dindorf]], Historici Graeci minores, 2
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	11	Translations:
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	13	- Roger Blockley: The History of Menander the Guardsman. Liverpool 1985.
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	15	## References
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	17	- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [[Public domain\|public domain]]: [[Hugh Chisholm\|Chisholm, Hugh]], ed. (1911). "[Menander Protector](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911%20Encyclopædia%20Britannica/Menander%20Protector)". [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition\|Encyclopædia Britannica]] (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.