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AGATHIAS (c. A.D. 536—582)
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See also:AGATHIAS (c. A.D. 536—582) , of Myrina in See also:Aeolis, See also:Greek poet and historian. He studied See also:law at See also:Alexandria, completed his training at See also:Constantinople and practised as an See also:advocate (scholasticus) in the courts. Literature, however, was his favourite pursuit. He wrote a number of See also:short love-poems in epic See also:metre, called Daphniaca. He next put together a See also:kind of See also:anthology, containing epigrams by earlier and contemporary poets and him-self, under the See also:title of a See also:Cycle of New Epigrams. About a See also:hundred epigrams by Agathias have been preserved in the Greek Anthology and show considerable See also:taste and elegance. After the See also:death of Justinian (565), some of Agathias's See also:friends persuaded him to write the See also:history of his own times. This See also:work, in five books, begins where See also:Procopius ends,. and is the See also:chief authority for the See also:period 552—558. It deals chiefly with the struggles of the See also:Byzantine See also:army, under the command of the See also:eunuch See also:Narses, against the Goths, See also:Vandals; See also:Franks and Persians. The author prides himself on his honesty and impartiality, but he is lacking in See also:judgment and knowledge of facts; the work, however, is valuable from the importance of the events of which it treats. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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