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Zosimus
Zosimus
c. 460 CE–c. 520 CE · Constantinople (Istanbul)
Zosimus (active around the late 5th to early 6th century CE) was a Greek historian, author of the New History, which narrates the decline of the Roman Empire up to the early 5th century CE. Writing from a pagan perspective, he attributed Rome's decline in part to the abandonment of the traditional gods, making his account a distinctive counterpoint to Christian historians of his age.
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About Constantinople (Istanbul)
Constantinople, today Istanbul in Turkey, was the Greek colony of Byzantium until Constantine I refounded it as the imperial capital in 330, and for over a millennium it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and a centre of Greek learning and Christian authority: the council of 381, which Gregory of Nazianzus led for a time, affirmed the Nicene Creed and ranked the city's bishop second only to Rome's, and Hagia Sophia rose in 537. Jews are recorded there from the late fourth century. Sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, it fell to the Ottomans in 1453, serving as their capital and a seat of Islamic learning until 1923; after 1492 Sephardi exiles made it a leading Jewish centre.
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