Agathias

536–582

Byzantine poet and historian

writer · lawyer · historian

Born in Myrina

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Agathias:

• Justinian I (482–565)
• Gregory I (540–604)
• Khadija bint Khuwaylid (557–619)
• Muhammad (571–632)
• Abu Bakr (573–634)
• Uthman ibn Affan (574–656)
• Aryabhata (476–550)
• Benedict of Nursia (480–547)

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