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Written after 591; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The opening of his lost history of the war between Rome and Persia from 572 to the return of Khosrow II in 591.

History · first written in Greek

Not yet on the site. An English translation of this work exists, but we are not yet sure that it is in the public domain, or its text is not yet made ready. So it is not shown.

How we know the date and place

Date written probable

Evagrius, EH 5.24; John of Epiphania, preface of the fragment, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/john_of_epiphania.htm; Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, "John of Epiphaneia"
The preface names the return of Khosrow in 591 and writes under the emperor Maurice (died 602).

Place written not known

Evagrius, EH 5.24; John of Epiphania, preface of the fragment, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/john_of_epiphania.htm; Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, "John of Epiphaneia"
Perhaps Antioch. Not known.