Malelas

or Malălas, Ioannes (Ἰωάννης ὁ Μαλέλα or Μαλάλα). A Byzantine historian born at Antioch who flourished in the sixth century A.D. He was the author of a universal history from the creation of the world through the reign of Justinian. It has been edited by Dindorf (Bonn, 1831).