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Zosimus

Zosimus

c. 460 CE–c. 520 CE · Constantinople (Istanbul)

Zosimus (active around the late 5th to early 6th century CE) was a Greek historian, author of the New History, which narrates the decline of the Roman Empire up to the early 5th century CE. Writing from a pagan perspective, he attributed Rome's decline in part to the abandonment of the traditional gods, making his account a distinctive counterpoint to Christian historians of his age.

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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

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

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In the same place & time

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

Across the traditions

In the same tradition

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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Zosimus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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