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In short: 5th century pagan historian pissed at Christianity for wrecking his world and blaming it for the downfall of the Roman Empire, savaging otherwise appreciated historical figures like Constantine. What's not to like?

Ho comprato questo libro, scritto fra il 507 e il 527 d.C., invogliato dalle numerose citazioni che ne fa il saggio Barbari di Alessandro Barbero http://www.anobii.com/books/010da3a0d... E in effetti il confronto tra il testo antico (che ho letto comodamente in un pomeriggio) e il saggio odierno che Leggi tutto

這本被翻譯作《羅馬新史》的一級史書，是生活在五世紀的東羅馬(拜占庭)作家Zosimos編撰的史書，殘留下的篇幅不算長，但主要的部分都在。作者是被稱之為最後的多神教史家(抱歉我不喜歡“異教”這個詞)，他對於當時盛行的基督教甚為敵視，在這本著作中，他開宗明義表示想寫一本說明羅馬之所以衰弱的作品，並將之歸因於這個新興宗教。某種程度上來說，他算是吉朋的先驅吧，雖然他說的那些原因在今天的眼光看來只能當作某些神祕主義看待，或者過於偏頗了。Zosimos的生平我們幾乎一無所知，只知道他當過財務相關的官員，可能是雄辯家，說起來，古代的史學家總是那麼的寂寞，紀錄的別人的事情卻無法讓人知道自己的生平。 Zosimo Leggi tutto

A history of the later Roman Empire, giving detailed account of time from Julian the Apostate to Honorius jut before the sack of Rome by Alaric in 410 AD. Zosimus, a pagan, partially attributes the decline and fall of the Empire to its conversion to Christianity. He shows extreme bias against Christ Leggi tutto

Σύγγραμμα ιστορικής αξίας, που εστιάζει κυρίως στους πολέμους και τις δολοπλοκίες των Ρωμαίων αυτοκρατόρων, παραλείποντας τις κοινωνικές-πολιτικές αποφάσεις και ενέργειες τους. Μεροληπτεί υπέρ των ηττημένων ιστορικά Εθνικών, αποθεώνει τον Ιουλιανό, ενώ θεωρεί την πολιτική και πνευματική αλλοτρίωση Leggi tutto

Zosimus lived around 500 AD when Rome was dying, the West was almost succumbed - besides a few Goths and Brits - to Cainano Hun and Avar Slave traders (working up the ranks they didn’t ravage by war through taking seats among the jurisprudential exoteric Christians who were flourishing everywhere), Leggi tutto

A Pagan narrative on why the Roman emperor rose, and then more so, why it declined. The narrative is interesting as it shows a pagan view-point which attempts to counters Eusebius' 'today's mainstream' Christian version of events from the same period. His main source is Eunapius, whom he basically c Leggi tutto

Interesting history of the era by a clearly non-christian pagan. The history itself is one of the very few (surviving) histories with that viewpoint and thus unique.