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Zosimus' Historia Nova (Ἱστορία Νέα, "New History") is written in Greek in six books and covers the period from 238 to 410 A.D. [6] It was written at the end of the fifth century. [7] For the period from 238 to 270, he apparently uses Dexippus; for the period from 270 to 404, Eunapius; and after 407, Olympiodorus.
The series premiered on 2 February 2025 at 8:30pm. Many hours earlier, all six episodes were made available on ABC iView. [9] As with the second series, however, the first episode was first seen at a red-carpet event at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne on 31 January 2025, attended by most cast and crew of the show.
Episodes are normally around 45 minutes in length, although for more in-depth topics the show has run longer than an hour. The winner of the 2014 [ 1 ] and the 2016 [ 2 ] People's Voice Webby Award , [ 3 ] the show is downloaded more than 1 million times per week and is consistently on iTunes’ Top 10 podcast rankings. [ 4 ]
There is a history of debate over whether the text is Jewish or Christian in origin, and over its textual history. The Story is divided into 18 chapters, of which chapters 8–10 form a self-contained work conventionally known as the "History of the Rechabites" and chapters 11–16 form a distinct work known as the "Abode of the Blessed". The ...
It is the highest-ranked UK history podcast on Spotify and Apple, and in the top 10 in the US charts. [3] As of June 2023 [update] it has 409 episodes and a rating of 9.7 on IMDb . [ 4 ] In October 2024, The Wall Street Journal revealed the podcast gets 11 million downloads a month, 1.2 million monthly YouTube views and over 45,000 paying ...
The only other ancient literary source in which Marcianus is securely attested is the Νέα Ιστορία ("New History") of the Greek historian, Zosimus. [4] Zosimus's "Marcianus" is generally agreed to be the same man as that referred to in the SHA , [ 5 ] but he is mentioned only once in the "New History" and then in a purely military context.
Zosimus reports the number of refugees as 30,000, but Peter Heather and Thomas Burns believe that number is impossibly high. [56] Heather argues that Zosimus had misread his source and that 30,000 is the total number of fighting-men under Alaric's command after the refugees joined Alaric.
Zosimus, writing his New History at the turn of the fifth and sixth centuries, [2]: 81 provides the fullest version of Olympiodorus' history, though he used only one fifth of it, [3]: 729 and omitted some details used by Sozomen. Initially his history, based on the work of Eunapius, concentrated on the Eastern Empire; however he switched to the ...