Eutychius of Alexandria

His life was roughly contemporary with the historian Agapius of Hierapolis, although neither displays knowledge of the other.

[1] Because he had never held any clerical office, his appointment met with considerable opposition, which lasted the remainder of his life.

[2] The most important work is the Nazm al-Jauhar, a world chronicle, which he began before becoming Patriarch, and dedicated to his brother.

His Nazm al-Jauhar is a valuable source for events in Persia prior to the rise of Islam and the later Sassanid rulers.

...In the East especially in Syria and Palestine the Jews sometimes rose upon the Christians with great violence (Eutychius, Annales tom ii., p. 236, &c. Jo.

(Mosheim 1847, p. 426, at Google Books) The history was adapted and continued to 1028 by Yahya ibn Sa'id, in which form it became known in Antioch and then Europe; but it continued to be expanded, and to circulate in this modified form.