The Travels of Marco Polo · Character

Nicephorus Gregoras

Also known as Gregoras, Nicephorus

  • Minor
  • First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 20

Nicephorus Gregoras appears as a historian whose name lends weight to accounts of the Bulgarians. He remains a figure of the page rather than the scene, his personal appearance and manner left beyond the book’s frame.

Gender
male
Age
Adult
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 20
Books
1

Nicephorus Gregoras is cited as a Byzantine historian in connection with writing about the Bulgarians. The book returns to his name in other references but offers no personal history, relationships, or transformation, leaving his role that of a learned source.

Description

The text identifies Gregoras as a Byzantine historian but gives no physical portrait. His height, build, skin tone, hair, eyes, facial features, clothing, and distinguishing marks are unspecified.

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  1. BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

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