* Fulgentius of Ruspe, bishop ( approximate date )

* Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe ( African bishop )

In the 6th century, Fulgentius of Ruspe is quoted as a witness in favour of the Comma.

* Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe, an African bishop in the 5th and 6th century who was possibly related to the above ; some authorities believe them to be the same person

There is a continuing debate as to whether or not Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, and a contemporary, Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe ( a bishop of the Catholic Church ) were in fact the same person.

This discovery has called into serious doubt the possibility of identifying the bishop and the mythographer, as Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe is known to have died in 533.

* Fulgentius of Cartagena ( 6th century – 630 ), Spanish Catholic bishop

* Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, a Latin grammarian, probably not earlier than the 6th century.

It has been suggested that Fulgentius, traditionally thought to have been writing in the same period as the bishop, ( late 5th-early 6th century ) may have borrowed a line from Corippus ’ Iohannis in his Mythologies, indicating he was writing after 550.

The grammarians Priscian and Fulgentius borrowed largely from his book, and in the 5th century a certain Julius Tryphonianus Sabinus brought out a revised and annotated edition.

As early as the end of the fifth century, another African, Fulgentius, composed a work modeled on it.

* Saint Fulgentius of Cartagena, a bishop who lived in 7th century Hispania

* Gottschalk of Orbais, nicknamed Fulgentius, a 9th century theologian, poet, and unwilling monk best known as a hero of the Jansenists and for his conflict with Hincmar

However, the inclusion of these names in manuscripts was most likely the mistake of some 8th or 9th century scribe who assumed ‘ Fulgentius ’ to be the well-known theologian.

Fulgentius ’ summarizing of classical myths has traditionally been compared to his predecessor, Hyginus the mythographer, of the 2nd century CE.

Fulgentius ’ manuscripts date as far back as the early 8th century.

Fulgentius remained a standard part of collections of antique mythology up until the 19th century, at which time his work began to come under popular criticism as being absurd and factually unreliable.

While Fulgentius ’ works remained popular during and well after the Carolingian period, his factual inaccuracies and questionable interpretations came under harsh criticism in the 19th century.

Another Fulgentius citation is in the English translation of De Trinitate see Introduction to the Critical Study p. 512 Thomas Horne ( 1821 ).

A fifth work, which in the past has been attributed to Fulgentius is the Super Thebaiden ( On the Thebaid ).

Fulgentius is also known to make significant mistakes in his retelling of history, like his conflation of Augustus with Julius Caesar in On the Ages of the World and of Man.

" he put a golden eagle on his war standards and dedicated it as a protection for his valour "-Anacreon, Fragment 505d ( from Fulgentius, Mythologies ) ( trans.

Formerly it was thought he was from Lorraine or Flanders, based on a dedication he made in his treatise, but other more recent evidence suggests that he may have been a John Cotton from England who worked under an abbot named Fulgentius at or near St. Gallen ( in modern Switzerland ).

However, this belief is based on small incidental clues Fulgentius leaves behind in work and has been contested by some scholars.

While there is no consensus on the authenticity of the treatise, there is strong evidence to assume the work as a product of the 12th-century, by a writer imitating the allegorical style of Fulgentius.

This theory is largely based on the fact that the manuscripts of the Ages of the World attribute the work to “ Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius ” ( Claudius and Gordianus both being names known to belong to members of the bishop ’ s immediate family ).

" Romuleis Libicisque Litteris: Fulgentius and the ' Vandal Renaissance '", Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa ( 2004 ): 101-132.

" Fulgentius ’ Expositio Vergiliana Continentia and the plan of Beowulf: another approach to the poem ’ s style and structure ," Papers on Language and Literature 6, No. 3 ( 1970 ): 227-262.

* Emily Albu, " Disarming Aeneas: Fulgentius on Arms and the Man ," in Andrew Cain ( ed ), The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity ( Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009 ), 21-30.

As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

In the 6th century BC the kingdom of Lydia almost expanded to the whole of Asia Minor, until it became a satrapy of the Persian Empire.

Later during the 6th century BC, most of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran.

Also, in the 6th century BC, the Indo-European Armenians founded the Orontid Dynasty in Urartu.

In India, the Ājīvika, Jain, and Cārvāka schools of atomism may date back to the 6th century BCE.

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

* Pherecydes of Syros ( 6th century BC )

The earliest records of the study of this phenomenon are attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras in the 6th century BC.

In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

Area settled by the Alemanni, and sites of Roman-Alamannic battles, 3rd to 6th century

Thus 6th century Gallo-Romans of Gregory's class, surrounded by the ruins of Roman temples and public buildings, attributed the destruction they saw to the plundering raids of the Alemanni.

The gold bracteate of Pliezhausen ( 6th or 7th century ) shows typical iconography of the pagan period.

We know that in the 6th century, the Alemanni were predominantly pagan, and in the 8th century, they were predominantly Christian.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.