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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 ]
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 (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 gives two versions (4.35 and 4.38-9), generally thought to be of the same story; the second version calls them Grothingi and speaks of a betrayal (or entrapment) by Promotus. The survivors of his people were settled in Phrygia ; some were drafted into the Army and some became agricultural labourers.
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, A New History. See also. Roman colonies in Berber Africa This page was last edited on 31 October 2024, at 22:41 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Mesopotamian campaigns of Ardashir I represented the first episode in a new period of wars between the Romans and Sasanids. The war between the Roman Empire, ruled by the Roman emperor Severus Alexander (222-235), and the Sasanian rule, led by Ardashir I [1] (224 [2]-241), lasted for more than a decade, from 229 to 241 when the Sasanian ruler died and was replaced by his son, Shapur I.