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Eunapius
Eunapius
c. 347 CE–c. 414 CE · Sardis
Eunapius of Sardis (c. 347-c. 414 CE) was a Greek historian and biographer of the later Roman Empire. He wrote a 'History' continuing that of Dexippus (now surviving in fragments) and the 'Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists,' a series of biographies of Neoplatonist philosophers and teachers that is a key source for late-antique intellectual life. He wrote from a perspective sympathetic to traditional Greek religion.
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About Sardis
Sardis was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia in western Asia Minor (near modern Sart, Turkey), ruled by kings such as Croesus until the Persian conquest around 547 BCE. It then served as a Persian provincial capital at the end of the Royal Road, and in Xenophon's Anabasis it is the gathering point for Cyrus the Younger's expedition. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule it remained a major city, with a Jewish community settled by Antiochus III whose large synagogue has been excavated. It was also one of the seven churches of Asia in the Book of Revelation, and Melito was its second-century bishop. The sophist and historian Eunapius was born there.
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