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A 6th-century Byzantine scholar, Zosimus also described the total massacre of Decius ' troops and the fall of the pagan emperor:
Fermat was not the first mathematician so moved to write in his own marginal notes to Diophantus ; the Byzantine scholar John Chortasmenos ( 14th / 15th C .) had written " Thy soul, Diophantus, be with Satan because of the difficulty of your theorems " next to the same problem.
This ' Alphabetical ' edition was combined with the ' Select ' edition by some unknown Byzantine scholar, bringing together all the nineteen plays that survive today.
According to the sixth century Byzantine scholar Zosimus, " Honorius wrote letters to the cities in Britain, bidding them to guard themselves.
* 1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman ( b. 1250 / 55 )
Procopius of Caesarea ( Latin: Procopius Caesarensis, ; c. AD 500 – c. AD 565 ) was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palaestina Prima.
* 25-Donald Nicol, 80, British Byzantine scholar.
Once the major academies of the Byzantine Empire dropped her works from their standard curricula, very few copies of her works were made by scribes, and the 12th century Byzantine scholar Tzetzes speaks of her works as lost.
* January 16 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman ( b. 1250 or 1255 )
1250 – 1327 ), Byzantine chief minister and scholar
He also brought the Byzantine scholar Manuel Chysoloras to Florence in 1397 to teach one of the first courses in Greek since the end of the Roman Empire.
* Gillian Bradshaw, a classical scholar, writes historical fiction set in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Duchy of Brittany, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain.
Justinian, a 1998 novel by science fiction author, and Byzantine scholar, Harry Turtledove, writing under the name HN Turtletaub, gives a fictionalized version of Justinian's life as retold by a fictional lifelong companion the soldier Myakes.
* Saint Methodius ( 826-885 ), Byzantine Greek archbishop of Great Moravia and scholar
Twelfth-century Byzantine scholar Eustathius of Thessalonica postulated a more brutal and literalist reading of the term loved, however, maintaining that Achilles actually committed an act of necrophilia on her corpse as a final insult to her.
Karl Krumbacher ( 23 September 1856 – 12 December 1909 ) was a German scholar who was an expert on Byzantine culture.
Written in Greek by Claudius Ptolemy, a Roman era scholar of Egypt, it is one of the most influential scientific texts of all time, with its geocentric model accepted for more than twelve hundred years from its origin in Hellenistic Alexandria, in the medieval Byzantine and Islamic worlds, and in Western Europe through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance until Copernicus.
* S. Mergiali-Sahas, S., ‘ Manuel Chrysoloras: an ideal model of a scholar ambassador ’, Byzantine Studies / Etudes Byzantines, 3 ( 1998 ), 1-12
The Byzantine scholar Arethas commissioned the copying of one of the extant Greek manuscripts of Euclid in the late ninth century.
Its name stems from the old word for " black " (" vran ") in the Serbian language and first appears in the Alexiad ( 9, 4 ) by Byzantine princess and scholar Anna Comnena ( 1083 – 1153 ). In period of Austrian occupation from 1688 to 1692, Vranje was managed by
* 1093: 3, 900 ( first appears in the Alexiad by Byzantine princess and scholar Anna Comnena )
Being a classical scholar, he was repelled by the Byzantine and later influence on Greek society and was a fierce critic of the clergy and their alleged subservience to the Ottoman Empire.
Additionally, the Romanian scholar described the Ottoman Empire itself as the inheritor of Byzantine government, legal culture and civilization, up to the Age of Revolution.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire, although he conceded it was the Orthodox Church that preserved the national identity of Greeks.

Byzantine and Procopius
In Justinian's era, and partly under his patronage, Byzantine culture produced noteworthy historians, including Procopius and Agathias, and poets such as Paul the Silentiary and Romanus the Melodist flourished during his reign.
Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius ' life is an entry in the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia that tells nothing about his early life.
Procopius recorded a few of the extreme weather events of 535-536, although these were presented as a backdrop to Byzantine military activities, such as a mutiny, in and near Carthage.
It started in Egypt, and reached Constantinople the following spring, killing ( according to the Byzantine chronicler Procopius ) 10, 000 a day at its height, and perhaps 40 % of the city's inhabitants.
* Procopius, Byzantine historian
* Procopius, Byzantine historian ( approximate date )
The Byzantine garrison ( 1, 000 men ) surrenders and is spared, but the inhabitants are massacred, ( according to Procopius 300, 000 people are murdered ) and the city itself is destroyed.
* Procopius, Byzantine historian ( approximate date ).
Byzantine historian Procopius stated that two Christian monks eventually uncovered the way of how silk was made.
Most of the historical evidence for Totila consists of chronicles by the Byzantine historian Procopius, who accompanied the Byzantine General Belisarius during the Gothic War.
The official Byzantine position, adopted by Procopius and even by the Romanized Goth Jordanes, writing just before the conclusion of the Gothic Wars, was that Totila was a usurper: Jordanes ' Getica ( 551 ) overlooks the recent successes of Totila.
" After a successful siege of a resisting city, such as at Perugia, however, Totila could be merciless, as the Byzantine historian Procopius recounts.
Procopius, the Byzantine author, mentions them and speaks of their fall.
The Byzantine Procopius described three peoples living in Britain: Angles, Frisians and Britons, and the Danish author of Knútsdrápa celebrating the 11th-century Canute the Great used ' Frisians ' as a synonym of ' English '.
According to the Byzantine historian Procopius, " From the start, Yazdegerd was a sovereign whose nobility of character had won for him the greatest renown.
He edited Procopius for Niebuhr's Corpus of the Byzantine writers, and between 1846 and 1851 brought out at Oxford an important edition of Demosthenes ; he also edited Lucian and Josephus for the Didot classics, while his work on Homeric scholarship is represented by his four-volume edition of the Homeric scholia.
In the 6th century, the Byzantine historian Procopius ( d. after 562 ) saw Attila and the Huns as the nation locked out by Alexander, and a little later other Christian writers identified them with the Saracens.
Thus, the Samaritans rebelled again under the rule of emperor Anastasius I, reoccupying Mount Gerizim, which was subsequently reconquered by the Byzantine governor of Edessa, Procopius.
The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, in his report on the wars with the Vandals, " during this year a most dread portent took place.
In later years, the Via Egnatia was revived as a key road of the Byzantine Empire ; Procopius records repairs made by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I during the 6th century, though even then the dilapidated road was said to be virtually unusable during wet weather.
The 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea ( Book I. ch.

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