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Agathias - LoveToKnow 1911 He next put together a kind of anthology, containing epigrams by earlier and contemporary poets and himself, under the title of a Cycle of New Epigrams. The author prides himself on his honesty and impartiality, but he is lacking in judgment and knowledge of facts; the work, however, is valuable from the importance of the events of which it treats. Gibbon contrasts Agathias as " a poet and rhetorician " with Procopius a statesman and soldier." logus (i. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Agathias   (256 words)

Agathias Agathias of Myrina in Aeolis, a Greek poet and historian. About a hundred epigrams by Agathias have been preserved in the Greek Anthology ahd show considerable taste and elegance. Edward Gibbon contrasts Agathias as "a poet and rhetorician" with Procopius "a statesman and soldier." www.nndb.com /people/883/000096595   (208 words)

INDIVIDUAL HOLIDAYS.Accommodation,hotels,apartments,studios.Palekastro,Sitia,Ierapetra,Eastern Crete,Greece Nireids rooms are located in the town of Sitia 30 meters opposite the beautiful beach of Sitia, a unique venue for both the professional and leisure lifestyle. Elia Studios' complex of 6 studios - apartments (about 26-28m2 each one) is located on a quiet slope of a hill at the edge of the traditional settlement of Agathias... Taverna - Restaurant Vaios is situated in Agathias, and is one of the few traditional taverns that still have every day changing Cretan specialties. www.webcrete.com /Accommodation.htm   (569 words)

Gnoli - Agathias and the date of Zoroaster - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran The fact is that, even though Agathias uses Persian material, as in the case of the 270 years for the Parthian period in II 26.1, for the chronographical section he is largely dependent also on Greek and Syrian sources For Persian history, Agathias could draw both on Greek and Syrian sources, as is shown by passages II 25.7-8 e IV 24.1 and on Persian material, in the first instance transmitted to him by the interpreter Sergius , Herodotus and Thucydides in Agathias, "Byzantinische Zeitschrift", LVII, 1964, pp. www.transoxiana.org /Eran/Articles/gnoli.html   (2602 words)

Agathias Agathias (Beiname Scholastikos; * um 536 in Myrina in Kleinasien, † um 582 in Konstantinopel) war ein oströmischer Historiker und Dichter. Agathias, der offenbar Christ war, studierte in Alexandria in Ägypten Rechtswissenschaften, wobei er jedoch seinen Beruf später in Konstantinopel ausübte. Wichtig dabei ist, dass Agathias nach eigenen Angaben auch zu persischen Quellen jener Zeit Zugang hatte (ob er tatsächlich Zugriff auf eine Übersetzung der sassanidischen Reichsannalen hatte, ist allerdings angesichts zahlreicher Fehler und Irrtümer zumindest zweifelhaft). www.kalkriese.de /Agathias.html   (325 words)

GATHIAS, Byzantine historian, b Among other matters, Agathias' History treats the war which was fought between Justinian and Xusraw I (Chosroes) in Lazica in 552-56—a war successfully conducted on the Persian side by the generals Mihr-Mihro@e@ (Mermeroes) and Naxwaraga@n (Nachoragan). As a contemporary of Xusraw I, Agathias was particularly qualified to etch the portrait of this celebrated monarch. Agathias does not lack objectivity in his appreciation of the valor of certain conspicuous Persians, such as the general Mihr-Mihro@e@, whom he praises in eloquent terms. www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v1f6/v1f6a050.html   (793 words)

A Tradition of Ancient Tourism in the Phlegraean Fields While Agathias is himself an ignoramus when it comes to Italian geography (for example, he places Cumae in Etruria) (11), his account is characterized nevertheless by the accuracy of its details about the topography of Cumae. Agathias correctly places the acropolis on the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea and accurately sketches its natural configuration and its fortifications (1.8.2-3). Agathias quite rightly has the debris of the fortifications fall not only into the hollow cavern below, but also down the west slope of the acropolis to be lapped by the waves on the shore. www.nsula.edu /campaniafelix/monti.htm   (2442 words)

St. Pachomius Library Agathias was a lawyer and public official in Smyrna, but his main interests were literary. Agathias is best remembered today as the editor of The Circle, a large collection of East Roman epigrams which Constantine Cephalas in the X Century would amalgamate with similar compilations from classical times to create the famous Greek Anthology. Agathias was also an important historian of events in his own era; his writings on this subject too have been misrepresented as pagan, despite overt Christian asides and favourable references to converted barbarians as "our fellow-Orthodox". www.voskrese.info /spl/XagathiasS.html   (541 words)

Agathias Agathias re-edited the Greek Anthology, which preserves about a hundred epigrams by Agathias that show considerable taste and elegance. Agathias (Histories 2.31) is the only authority for the story of Justinian's closing of the re-founded Platonic (actually neoplatonic) Academy in Athens, 529, often cited as the closing date of Antiquity. It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license. www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ag/Agathias.htm   (307 words)

Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Agathias About a hundred epigrams by Agathias have been preserved in the Greek Anthology and show considerable taste and elegance. After the death of Justinian (565), some of Agathias's friends persuaded him to write the history of his own times. Gibbon contrasts Agathias as "a poet and rhetorician" with Procopius "a statesman and soldier." www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ag/Agathias   (230 words)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 62 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: ) He shewed them his gratitude by dedicat­ing to them several of his literary productions, and he paid particular homage to Paulus Silentiarius, the son of Cyrus Florus, who was descended from an old and illustrious family. It con­tains the history from 553—558 £r p., a short period, but remarkable for the important events with which it is filled up. Agathias, after having related that he had abandoned his poetical occupation for more serious studies (Prooemiwrt) ed. www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0071.html   (942 words)

Baby Name Agathias - Origin and Meaning of Agathias The boy's name Agathias \a-ga-thias\ is of Greek origin, and its meaning is "good, honourable". Agathias has 3 variant forms: Agathios, Agathius and Agathos. Agathias is a very rare male first name and a very rare surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census). www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Agathias   (92 words)

20th WCP: The Context and Contents of Priscianus of Lydia's Solutionum ad Chosroem Agathias, unfortunately, does not offer any further details concerning the law that prohibited these philosophers from playing any role in the public political life of the Byzantine Empire. Agathias does not state that Damascius and Priscianus and the other philosophers were from Athens. According to Agathias, Shah Khusro was so impressed with one philosopher from Byzantine territory, Uranius, that "he swore on many occasions that he had never before seen his equal, in spite of the fact that the shah had previously beheld real philosophers of great distinction who had come to his court fom Byzantine territory." www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Medi/MediErha.htm   (2987 words)

Plagues from Athens to Justinian <46> Agathias, writing of a second outbreak in the capital in 558, related that since the first epidemic, the plague had never completely abated, rather it simply moved from one place to another. Agathias observed, however, that young men suffered the most from the plague. Agathias, V. John of Ephesus, fragment II, G. Until November of 1996, there had been no discovery of a plague pit in Athens, despite near continuous archaeological fieldwork within the city for the past two centuries. www.uwmc.uwc.edu /political_science/IGS_AIDSinAFRICA/Justinianplague.htm   (6691 words)

Agathias Agathias on the Persians (http://www.sasanika.com/pdf/Agathias%20Final.pdf): excerpts from Agathias' History (in English) Agathias, Histories, edited by Joseph D. Frendo, in Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, vol. Kaldellis, "The Historical and Religious Views of Agathias: A Reinterpretation," in Byzantion. www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Agathias.html   (474 words)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 385 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The next was the Ku/cAos eiriypau/Adrwv of agathias scho­lasticus, who lived in the time of Justinian. The poems included in it were those of recent writers, and chiefly those of Agathias himself and of his con­temporaries, such as Paulus Silentiarius and Ma-cedonius. The labours of preceding compilers may be viewed as merely supplementary to the Garland of Meleager; but the Anthology of Con­stantinus Cephalas was an entirely new collection from the preceding Anthologies and from original sources. www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2719.html   (929 words)

Simplicius biography It is not entirely clear what the terms of the treaty were in regard to Simplicius and the other philosophers who had gone to Persia. Agathias, the Byzantine poet and author of a history of his own times, wrote of these events after the death of Justinian in 565. The accuracy of this view by Agathias has been challenged by Cameron in [Proc. www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /Biographies/Simplicius.html   (909 words)

Eastern Crete Vacation resorts for holidays in Palekastro, Agathias Outside of the village Palekastro at the traditional settlement of Agathias there is a complex with full furnished rooms and view to the sea. Situated on the hillside of the small traditional village Agathias. Traditional family tavern and comfortable furnished rooms situated in Agathias, near the village of Palekastro. www.eastern.cretefamilyhotels.com /accommodation/agathias_accomm/agathias_accommodation.htm   (247 words)

Humanarchives.org :: Agathias   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Apartments and Studios in Agathias, Palekastro, Sitia, Eastern Crete - Accommodation and Holidays in one... Restaurant - Tavern Vaios in Agathias, Palekastro, Sitia, Eastern... Project Agathias by Tek S.A. Properties for Sale by Owners, old new Houses, building plots land, Hotels Motels. agathias.humanarchives.org   (304 words)

Agathias Biography / Profile - Salem on Literature After a period of study in Alexandria, Agathias (ug-GAY-thee-uhs) spent most of his life in Constantinople, where he supported himself by practicing law. The Cycle, Agathias’s collection of contemporary epigrams on erotic, funerary, and other theme, includes epigrams by Agathias as well as by Paul the Silentiary and other prominent men who belonged to Agathias’s literary circle. Agathias wrote the preface to the Cycle as a panegyric to Justin II in the hope of gaining the emperor’s support but failed to win imperial patronage. www.enotes.com /agathias-salem/agathias   (325 words)

Agathias Agathias, Greek poet and historian Evagrius Scholasticus, church historian (or 537) 536 - Deaths. One of the principal claims of the Anthology to attention is derived from its continuity, its existence as a living and growing body of poetry throughout all the vicissitudes of Greek civilization. If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Hellenized populace of the Eastern Roman Empire during the Christian Middle Ages, then it is a multiform organism, combining Greek and Christian civilization on the common foundation of the Roman political system, set in the intellectual and ethnographic atmosphere of the Near East. www.experiencefestival.com /agathias   (1386 words)

Reference for Agathias - Search.com Agathias re-edited the Greek Anthology, which preserves about a hundred of his epigrams, showing considerable taste and elegance. Agathias (Histories 2.31) is the only authority for the story of Justinian's closing of the re-founded Platonic (actually neoplatonic) Academy in Athens (529), which is often cited as the closing date of Antiquity. Kaldellis, "Agathias on history and poetry," in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 38 (1997), pp 295-306 www.search.com /reference/Agathias   (686 words)

O. Maenchen-Helfen - The Language of the Huns - 6 Agathias also mentions the name and the nationality of Elmingeiros' superior: He was the taxiarchos Dabragezas of the people of the Antes. In order to overcome the difficulties of transmitting orders, a formidable task in mercenary armies of as many different nationalities as the armies of Justinian and his successors, barbarians of the same regions were kept together in the same units. Agathias took great care in transcribing foreign names as faithfully as the Greek alphabet permitted. www.kroraina.com /huns/mh/mh_6.html   (3502 words)

Tabula Tabula is a game of the Tables family of games, and is generally thought to be the direct ancestor of modern Backgammon. The earliest description of it is in an epigram of Emperor Zeno (476-481CE) given by Agathias of Myrine (527-567CE), where Agathias describes an game in which Zeno through the unfortunate roll of dice goes from a strong position to a very weak one. The rules of Tabula were reconstructed in the 19th century by Becq de Fouquieres based upon this epigram. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Tabula.html   (91 words)

Eastern Crete, fish taverns, restaurants, Cretan products, traditional food, olive oil, thyme   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Tavern meltemi is situated on the picturesque village Agathias. Nikos, the fisherman and his family in Agistri tavern provide you fresh fish, sea food and treditional cretan dishes, in Agathias, where you will enjoy a splendid view to the olives groove. On the beautiful settlement of Agathias we create a place where you can taste traditional dishes like fava, garbanzos, beans, lentils and meat on grill all based and cooked on olive oil. www.eastern.cretefamilyhotels.com /food_drinks/taverns/taverns.htm   (415 words)

Ski mountaineering in Crete Here we have a small deviation from E4: The path normally traverses Agathias from the northern side but in winter it's nearly always frozen and the use of an ice axe and crampons, while carrying the skis on the back, is necessary. The access to that point can be reached from Zoniana too, but then the Kourouna plateau is reached either from the east or the west depending on the dirt track we follow (not recommended though as the dirt tracks are like a maze). From the refuge we follow the E4 path heading N - NW - NE until the bottom of the southern side of Agathias through relatively smooth slopes and gullies and we continue W - NW until the saddle point of Agathias - Timios Stavros and the peak. www.climbincrete.com /english/articles/mountaineering-ski-crete.php   (1308 words)

Restaurant - Tavern Vaios in Agathias, Palekastro, Sitia, Eastern Crete Restaurant - Tavern Vaios in Agathias, Palekastro, Sitia, Eastern Crete Taverna - Restaurant Vaios is situated in Agathias, approximately 1000 m. They always have a good glass of local wine and at the end of your dinner it is hard to refuse the offered home made raki. www.crete-today.com /restaurants/Vaios   (125 words)

Agathias Palekastrou - Crete Greece Travel and Hotel Guide Most of the 793 permanent residents, occupy with far... Agathias is a small village of 200 inhabitants. It is located between Palekastro village and Chiona Beach. www.go2crete.com /crete_travelguide/agathias_palekastrou.html   (186 words)

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