Agathias Scholasticus

Agathias, called Scholasticus (the lawyer), was a Greek poet and historian of the 6th century CE who worked at Constantinople in the reign of the emperor Justinian. He wrote a history continuing that of Procopius, covering the wars of his own time, and he both composed and compiled epigrams that became an important source for later Greek poetic anthologies. He is a major witness to the culture of the late antique East.