Agathias sentence example
agathias
- He next put together a kind of anthology, containing epigrams by earlier and contemporary poets and himself, 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.
- Gibbon contrasts Agathias as " a poet and rhetorician " with Procopius a statesman and soldier."
- We find no hint of it in Agathias (who wrote between 566 and 582), in Marius (532-596), or in Gregory of Tours (54 o -594).
- Our best authorities for his life are his contemporaries Procopius and Agathias.Advertisement
- He took as his model Agathias, who like him had been a jurist, and his history begins at the point where Agathias leaves off.
- On the same tradition the account of Firdousi in the Shahnama is based; it occurs also, with some variations, in Agathias ii.