• known about the life of Zosimus except that he was Greek and a pagan. He was not a contemporary of the events of his books. Zosimus' Historia Nova (Ἱστορία...
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  • Zosimus, Zosimos, Zosima or Zosimas may refer to: Rufus and Zosimus (died 107), Christian saints Zosimus (martyr) (died 110), Christian martyr who was...
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  • Pope Zosimus was the bishop of Rome from 18 March 417 to his death on 26 December 418. He was born in Mesoraca, Calabria. Zosimus took a decided part in...
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    (Greek: Ζώσιμος ὁ Πανοπολίτης; also known by the Latin name Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was an alchemist and Gnostic mystic. He was...
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    However, it's possible that much of this narrative is fictitious, as Zosimus and Zonaras report that Tacitus was actually proclaimed by the army without...
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    south with an army which, according to Zosimus, had been called in as a reinforcement by Gallus. But modern historians believe this army, possibly mobilized...
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  • (Greek: Σωκράτης ὁ Σχολαστικός), was a 5th-century Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret. He is the author of a Historia...
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    acted as metropolitan over the bishops of Italia Suburbicaria. The historian Zosimus, in his Historia Nova, suggests that during the sack of Rome in 410...
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    The Historians' History of the World, subtitled A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development as Recorded by over two thousand of the Great Writers...
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    Gauls expelled Constantine's magistrates in 409 or 410. The Byzantine historian Zosimus (fl. 490s – 510s) directly blamed Constantine for the expulsion, saying...
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  • theorized by German scholar Alexander Enmann), which is lost. Zosimus was a pagan historian who wrote at c. 500 AD a history of Rome to 410 in six books...
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    Odaenathus; Zosimus described him as insignificant, appropriate for a five-year-old boy. On the other hand, Macurdy, citing the language Zosimus used when...
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  • first told by Ammianus Marcellinus, a contemporary historian, the second exposed by Zosimus, a historian of the beginning of the 6th century. Ammianus Marcellinus...
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  • ), Armenian history Ghazar Parpetsi (441– after 515), Armenian history Zosimus (fl. 491–518), late Roman history Jordanes (6th century), history of the...
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    Gestae 29.2.22. Eunapius, Vitae sophistarum 7.6.6-13. Suda s.v. Φῆστος. Zosimus, Historia Nova 4.15.2-3. "Sextus Rufus" in the Dictionary of Greek and...
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    assumptions, not upon the evidence." See: Zosimus, book 5 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/New_History/Book_the_Fifth See: Zosimus, book 5 http://en.wikisource...
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    Tacitus (redirect from Tacitus (historian))
     AD 56 – c. 120), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. The surviving...
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  • Sozomen (category 5th-century Byzantine historians)
    Thebes, who was probably Sozomen's only secular source. A comparison with Zosimus, who also made use of Olympiodorus, seems to show that the whole ninth...
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    civitas of Tongeren. The first historian to say that the Salians had been pushed into the empire from outside was Zosimus, but his description of events...
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    the required forms of payment. According to the early Byzantine writer Zosimus, Emperor Constantine I first initiated this tax, perhaps as early as 325...
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    Christianity. Others, like historian Warwick Ball, view Zosimus' evident distaste for Philip as noteworthy, and suggest that Zosimus' anti-Christian polemic...
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  • Claudii, 6.4 Zosimus, 1.42 Zosimus, 1.45 John Bray, p.282. See Zosimus, 1.46 G. Syncellus, p.720 Alaric Watson, p.216 David S. Potter, p.270 Zosimus, Historia...
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    executed and excluded from all official accounts for unknown reasons. Historians Zosimus and Zonaras reported that she was executed for adultery with her stepson...
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  • Malchus (Ancient Greek: Μάλχος, Málkhos) was a 5th-century Byzantine historian of an Arab origin from the city of Philadelphia (nowadays Amman). According...
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    Archived from the original on 1 November 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2015. Zosimus, 1:8 Dio, 74:8 Historia Augusta, Pertinax, 10:4 Historia Augusta, Pertinax...
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  • D.) Sozomen, Historia Ecclesiastica VII.13 Zosimus, Historia Nova 5.39.4 Translation of the 5th Book of Zosimus, our primary source for her existence...
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  • Doukas or Dukas (c. 1400 – after 1462) was a Byzantine Greek historian who flourished under Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine Emperor. He...
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    AD/420s AD-after 472 AD) was a 5th-century Eastern Roman diplomat and Greek historian and rhetorician (or sophist). Priscus was born in Panion (located in Thrace)...
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    II), p. 579). Zosimus, New History, I, 68.1. Zosimus, New History, I, 67.3. Grant 1984, p. 256). Historia Augusta - Probus, 16.1. Zosimus, New History...
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  • of the Emperor Honorius, the ancient sources (Olympiodorus of Thebes, Zosimus and Orosius) generally link the revolt to the barbarian incursions into...
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