BİZANS TARİHÇİSİ AGATHIAS VE TÜRKLER HAKKINDA VERDİĞİ BİLGİLER
BYZANTINE HISTORIAN AGATHIAS AND HIS INFORMATION PRESENTATION ABOUT TURKS

Summary/Abstract: Agathias, born around 532 and died after 579, is one of the most important writers of the Byzantine history because the information given in his work is not found in other sources. The author, who was a lawyer interested in the art of poetry, later on decided to write history with the encouragement of the people around him. His ―History‖, reached us in five books, covers only seven years between A.D. 552-559. Of the events of these years, it deals almost exclusively with the military campaigns in Italy and Lazica, which took place during the final stages of Justinian‘s reign. Agathias‘ scale is large, and he does not make do with simple narrative: at least a third of the work is occupied with scholarly or personal digressions extraneous to the main theme.

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