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Zosimus
Late 5th/early 6th century Byzantine historian · Writers · Lived 460 to 520 · aged 60
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Something wrong?A pagan historian writing in Christian Constantinople, Zosimus blamed the empire's troubles on Constantine's abandonment of the old gods - an audacious thesis to publish under a Christian emperor.
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About this person
Zosimus lived in Constantinople during the reign of Anastasius I, serving as comes and advocate of the imperial treasury in the 490s-510s. He wrote his history long after the events he chronicled, drawing on earlier sources to construct a narrative spanning Rome's decline. His work is notable for its open condemnation of Constantine's conversion, arguing that rejecting the traditional polytheistic religion set the empire on a path toward weakness. Writing as a pagan in a now-Christian world, he preserved a vanishing perspective on the forces that shaped late antiquity.
Writers born in the 460s 5
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