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AGATHIAS (c. A.D. 536582)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 370 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AGATHIAS (c. A.D. 536582) , of Myrina in Aeolis, Greek poet and historian. He studied law at Alexandria, completed his training at
Constantinople
  and practised as an
advocate
 
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(scholasticus) in the courts. Literature, however, was his favourite pursuit. He wrote a number of short love-poems in epic metre, called Daphniaca. He next put together a kind of
anthology
 , containing epigrams by earlier and contemporary poets and him-self, under the title of a Cycle of New Epigrams. About a hundred epigrams by
Agathias
  have been preserved in the Greek
Anthology
  and show considerable
taste
  and elegance. After the death of Justinian (565), some of
Agathias
 's friends persuaded him to write the history of his own times. This
work
 , in five books, begins where
Procopius
  ends,. and is the
chief
  authority for the period 552558. It deals chiefly with the struggles of the Byzantine army, under the command of the eunuch Narses, against the Goths, Vandals;
Franks
  and Persians. The author prides himself on his honesty and impartiality, but he is lacking in judgment and knowledge of facts; the
work
 , however, is valuable from the importance of the events of which it treats. Gibbon contrasts Agathias as " a poet and rhetorician " with
Procopius
  "a Statesman and soldier."


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