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Flourished c.401 - c.600
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire
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Narses
Syrian theologian
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Theophylactus Simocattes
Byzantine historian
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Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
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George Pachymeres
Byzantine scholar
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Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
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Theodorus Lector
Greek historian
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George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
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George the Monk
Byzantine historian
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George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian
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Heinrich Harrer
explorer and writer
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Eutropius
Roman author
Mosaic detail of Emperor Justinian I with a jeweled crown and halo, wearing ornate robes, from the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.
Justinian I
Byzantine emperor
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Livy
Livy
Roman historian
Heraclius
Heraclius
Byzantine emperor
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Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
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Nicephorus II Phocas
Byzantine emperor
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Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor