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Theophylact Simocatta (Greek: Theophylaktos Simokates, also Simokattes) was an early 7th century Byzantine
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
 historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of Antiquity
Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century to the Islamic conquests and the re-organization of the Byzantine Empire under...
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He wrote a history of the reign of emperor Maurice in eight books. His work is of lesser stature than that of Procopius
Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine Empire scholar of the family Procopius . A participant himself in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he was the major historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History....
 and his style is pompous, but he is an important source of information concerning the 7th century Slavs and Persians.






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Theophylact Simocatta (Greek: Theophylaktos Simokates, also Simokattes) was an early 7th century Byzantine
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
 historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of Antiquity
Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century to the Islamic conquests and the re-organization of the Byzantine Empire under...
.

He wrote a history of the reign of emperor Maurice in eight books. His work is of lesser stature than that of Procopius
Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine Empire scholar of the family Procopius . A participant himself in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he was the major historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History....
 and his style is pompous, but he is an important source of information concerning the 7th century Slavs and Persians. He mentions the war of Heraclius
Heraclius

Flavius Heraclius was a Byzantine Emperor, who ruled the Byzantine Empire for over thirty years, from October 5, 610 to February 11, 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his Heraclius the Elder, the viceregal Exarchate of Africa, successfully led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas....
 against the Persians (602-628), but not against the Arabs (beginning 634), so that it is likely that he was writing around 630. He used the history of John of Epiphania
John of Epiphania

John of Epiphania was a late sixth century Byzantine Empire historian.John was born in Epiphania . He was a Christian and served as a legal counselor to the Patriarch of Antioch, Gregory ....
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentrism cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
 translated poems of Theophylact, and had them published in 1509 by Johann Haller
Johann Haller

Johann Haller or Jan Haller is considered to be one of the first commercial printers in Poland.Born in in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Haller is perhaps best known for publishing poems of Theophylact Simocatta in 1509 which had been translated from Greek by Nicolaus Copernicus....
. This is considered Copernicus' only publication at his own initiative, as his important works on astronomy were only published after he was urged to do so.

Literature

  • Michael and Mary Whitby (trans.), The History of Theophylact Simocatta: An English Translation with Introduction, Oxford University Press, (1986), ISBN 0-19-822799-X


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