Introduction. General overview -- Zachariah of Mytilene -- Pseudo-Zachariah of Mytilene -- Historical introduction -- Text and translation -- Analysis and partial translation of books i-ii (S.B., with some additions by G.G.) -- The chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor. Book iii -- Book iv -- Book v -- Book vi -- Book vii -- Book viii -- Book ix -- Book x -- Book xii -- Appendices. Works circulating in the early sixth century about the council of Chalcedon -- Emperors and patriarchs, 440-565.
The Chronicle was written in Syriac in the second half of the 6th century by an author designated here as Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor. It draws heavily on the Historia ecclesiastica of Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene, with whom the Chronicle's author became conflated./ Includes bibliographical references (p. [476]-523) and indexes.