Eunapius
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Eunapius was a Greek sophist, rhetorician, and historian from Sardis in the region of Lydia in Asia Minor. His principal surviving work is the Lives of Philosophers and Sophists, a collection of the b
Title page of the Vitae sophistarum of Eunapius, in Greek and Latin, 1596
Constantinian Excerpts
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The Constantinian Excerpts was a 53-volume Greek anthology of excerpts from at least 25 historians. It was commissioned by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII, but probably not completed until after
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…and Sophists, and Universal History consisting of a continuation of the history of Dexippus. The former work is still extant; of the latter only the Constantinian excerpts remain, but the facts are largely incorporated in the work of Zosimus. It embraced the history of events from AD 270–404. The Lives of Philosophers and…
A page from the Codex Peirescianus