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Also Known As Socrates Scholasticus • Sokrates
Born c.380 • Turkey
Died c.450
Notable Works “Historia ecclesiastica”
Subjects Of Study history of early Christianity
George Pachymeres
Byzantine scholar
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
George The Syncellus
Byzantine historian
Palladius
Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler
Sozomen
Christian lawyer
Justinian I
Justinian I
Byzantine emperor
Philostorgius
Byzantine historian
Theophylactus Simocattes
Byzantine historian
Saint Theodosius of Palestine
Asian saint
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
Justin I
Justin I
Byzantine emperor
Hesychius Of Miletus
Byzantine historian
St. Theodotus
theologian
Eustathius of Thessalonica
Greek Orthodox metropolitan
Saint Gennadius I of Constantinople
Byzantine theologian
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
Michael Glycas
Byzantine historian and theologian
John Malalas
Byzantine chronicler
George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian