Unfortunately Photius Week turns out to be less than seven days of Photius, unlike Ioan Exarch Week. But here is a quote from Bibliotheka, in which Photius recommends and summarizes various books for his "Brother Tarasios".
"Read the so-called Ecclesiastical History by Philostorgius the Arian, the spirit of which is different from that of nearly all other ecclesiastical historians. He extols all Arians, but abuses and insults all the orthodox, so that his work is not so much a history as a panegyric of the heretics, and nothing but a barefaced attack upon the orthodox. His style is elegant, his diction often poetical, though not to such an extent as to be tedious or disagreeable. His figurative use of words is very expressive and makes the work both pleasant and agreeable to read; "
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