The Emperor Maurice and His Historian: Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare by Michael Whitby

The Emperor Maurice and His Historian: Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare

Michael Whitby

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nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The History of Theophylact Simocatta, the last historian of classical antiquity, is recognized to be the primary source for information about the reign of the emperor Maurice (582-602). Yet the idiosyncracies of Theophylact's style have often dete...

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