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Commius ? (The Historian, Zosimus)
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Lineage | ? |
Sex | Male |
Full name (at birth) | Commius ? |
Other last names | The Historian, Zosimus |
Parents | |
Wiki-page | wikipedia:Zosimus |
Events
fact 1: Contemporary of the Emperor Anastasius I (491-518)
fact 2: Author of "Historia Nova"
death: Constantinople, Byzantium
Notes
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Wrote of Celtic events in Britain and Brittany during the fall of Rome.
From Wikipedia: Zosimus is the only non-Christian source for much of what he reports...The single good manuscript, in the Vatican Library (MS Vat. Gr. 156 ), was held unavailable to scholars until the mid-19th century.
[edit] Sources
- ↑ Zosimus.. exerpts from Historia Nova -
- ↑ MS Vat. Gr. 156 (Codex Vaticanus Graecus). Zosimus "Historia Nova" -
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