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Agathias Scholasticus

Agathias Scholasticus

c. 530 CE–c. 582 CE · Constantinople (Istanbul)

Agathias, called Scholasticus (the lawyer), was a Greek poet and historian of the 6th century CE who worked at Constantinople in the reign of the emperor Justinian. He wrote a history continuing that of Procopius, covering the wars of his own time, and he both composed and compiled epigrams that became an important source for later Greek poetic anthologies. He is a major witness to the culture of the late antique East.

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Constantinople (Istanbul)קונסטנטינופולOttoman Empire

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About Constantinople (Istanbul)

Major post-1492 Sephardi center under Ottoman protection. Home of R. Yehudah Rosanes (Mishneh L'Melech) and many other Acharonim.

In Constantinople (Istanbul) at the same time

Procopius, Stephanus of Alexandria

Across the traditions, in Constantinople (Istanbul) at the same time

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In the same place & time

Sages whose lives overlapped with Agathias Scholasticus’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.

Across the traditions

In the same tradition

Procopius, Stephanus of Alexandria

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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Agathias Scholasticus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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