Theophylact Simocatta (Greek: Θεοφύλακτος Σιμοκάτ(τ)ης - Theophylaktos Simokat(t)es) was an early 7th-century Byzantine historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of Antiquity.
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Life
He wrote a history of the reign of emperor Maurice in eight books. His work is of lesser stature than that of Procopius and his style is pompous, but he is an important source of information concerning the 7th-century Slavs and Persians. He mentions the war of Heraclius against the Persians (602-28), but not against the Arabs (beginning 634), so that it is likely that he was writing around 630. He used the history of John of Epiphania.
Nicolaus Copernicus translated Greek verses by Theophylact into Latin prose and had his translation, dedicated to his uncle Lucas Watzenrode, published in Kraków in 1509 by Johann Haller. It was the only book that Copernicus ever brought out on his own account.[1]
Notes
- ^ Angus Armitage, The World of Copernicus, pp. 75–77.
References
- Michael and Mary Whitby, translators, The History of Theophylact Simocatta: An English Translation with Introduction, Oxford University Press, 1986, ISBN 0-19-822799-X.
- Angus Armitage, The World of Copernicus, New York, Mentor Books, 1947.
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