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Eunapius
Eunapius
c. 347 CE–c. 414 CE · Sardis
Eunapius of Sardis (c. 347-c. 414 CE) was a Greek historian and biographer of the later Roman Empire. He wrote a 'History' continuing that of Dexippus (now surviving in fragments) and the 'Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists,' a series of biographies of Neoplatonist philosophers and teachers that is a key source for late-antique intellectual life. He wrote from a perspective sympathetic to traditional Greek religion.
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About Sardis
Sardis was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia in western Asia Minor (modern Sart, Turkey), later a major city under Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman rule. It figures in Xenophon's Anabasis as the gathering point from which Cyrus the Younger launched his expedition. The sophist and historian Eunapius, author of the Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists, was a native of Sardis.
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