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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.
— 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 ]
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]
The magazine Zozimus, 1870–72 [9] Zoz, or the Irish Charivari, 1876–79 [9] A New York collection of stories The Zozimus Papers (1889) [9] A 2007 compendium of Irish comic poetry Ireland's Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus. [10] Several of Zozimus's poems were included.
Zosimus was eventually accused of being a secret heretic and, on 17 May 1494, he was removed from the metropolitan throne on charges of heresy and sodomy. [3] He died before any trial was held. Zosimus is known for having compiled a list of banned books and written an epistle against heretics .
Zosimus (historian) (c. 490–510) 5th-century Byzantine historian; Pope Zosimus (died 418), born in Mesoraca, Calabria, who reigned from 417 to his death in 418; Zosimos of Samosata, mosaicist at Zeugma; Zosimus, 5th-century hermit who discovered Mary of Egypt in the desert; Zosimus the Epigrammist in Anthologia Graeca
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 ...
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. [57]