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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.
Pope Zosimus was the bishop of Rome from 18 March 417 to his death on 26 December 418. [1] He was born in Mesoraca , Calabria . [ 2 ] Zosimus took a decided part in the protracted dispute in Gaul as to the jurisdiction of the See of Arles over that of Vienne , giving energetic decisions in favour of the former, but without settling the controversy.
The Story of Zosimus [1] (also called the Narration, [1] Apocalypse [1] or Journey of Zosimus [2]) is a Greek text of the 5th century AD. [3] It has sometimes been classified as among the Old Testament pseudepigrapha. [4] In the Middle Ages, it was translated into Syriac, Arabic, Ge'ez, Armenian, Georgian and Slavonic. [2]
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, New History, 2.21.1–2. The limes along the border of Pannonia Superior , with the path of the so-called Devil's Dykes in Sarmatia At the same time, the Goths [ 8 ] [ 58 ] of Rausimodus decided to cross the Danube (further downstream) too and tried to raid the Roman territory of Moesia Inferior and Thrace . [ 9 ]
Timeline of the early universe – events dating from the formation of the universe; Timelines from the formation of the Earth to the rise of modern humans Timeline of natural history (13,700,000,000 BCE – 200,000 BCE)
Zosimus, 5th-century hermit who discovered Mary of Egypt in the desert; Zosimus the Epigrammist in Anthologia Graeca; John Zosimus (Ioane-Zosime), 10th-century Georgian monk and hymnist; Zosimus, Bishop of Várad (died c. 1265), 13th-century Hungarian prelate; Zosimas of Solovki (died 1478), Russian Orthodox saint, founder of Solovetsky Monastery
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 ...