The Suda, The Greek Encyclopedia Written in the Year 1100

The Suda, The Greek Encyclopedia Written in the Year 1100

Credit: Jean Le Tavernier /Public Domain The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world’s first encyclopedias and lexicons. Created as both a syllabary of the Greek language and an overview of events in the known world up until that time, it is a benchmark in scholarship of the medieval period. The Suda, or Souda (Σοῦδα,) was formerly attributed to an author called Soudas or Souidas. It is an…