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MENANDER See also:PROTECTOR (IIportKro,p, i.e. one of the imperial bodyguards) , See also:Byzantine historian, was See also:born in See also:Constantinople in the See also:middle of the 6th See also:century A.D. The little that is known of his See also:life is contained in the See also:account of himself quoted by Suidas. He at first took up the study of See also:law, but abandoned it for a life of See also:pleasure.' When his fortunes were See also:low, the patronage accorded to literature by the See also:emperor See also:Maurice (582) encouraged him to try See also:writing See also:history. He took as his See also:model See also:Agathias (q.v.), who like him had been a jurist, and his history begins at the point where Agathias leaves off. It embraces the See also:period from the arrival of the Cotriguri Hunni in See also:Thrace during the reign of Justinian in 558 down to the See also:death of the emperor Tiberius in 582. Considerable fragments of the See also:work are preserved in the excerpts of See also:Constantine Porphyrogenitus and in Suidas. Although the See also:style is sometimes bombastic, he is considered trustworthy and is one of the most valuable authorities for the history of the 6th century, especially on See also:geographical and ethnographical matters. He was an See also:eye-See also:witness of some of the events he describes. Like Agathias, he wrote epigrams, one of which, on a See also:Persian magus, who became a convert to See also:Christianity and died the death of a See also:martyr, is preserved in the See also:Greek See also:anthology (Anth. See also:Pal. i. for). The fragments will be found in C. W.

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Muller, Frag. Kist. See also:gram iv. Zoo; J. P. See also:Migne, Patrologia graeca, exiii., and L. See also:Dindorf, Historici graeci minores, ii.;- see also C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).

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