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Flourished c.401 - c.600
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire
Theophylactus Simocattes
Byzantine historian
Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
George Pachymeres
Byzantine scholar
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
Theodorus Lector
Greek historian
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian
Narses
Syrian theologian
Eutropius
Roman author
Heinrich Harrer
explorer and writer
Justinian I
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
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
Nicephorus II Phocas
Byzantine emperor
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor