Disambiguation evidence for Zosimus' "New History" via surface form

"New History"


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Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "New History".

Predicate Object
alternativeTitle Historia Nea
author Zosimus
chronologicalScope from the principate to the early Byzantine period
completionDate early 6th century (approximate)
countryOfOrigin Byzantine Empire
surface form: Eastern Roman Empire
criticalOf Christian emperors
criticalOf barbarian influence in the Roman army
criticalOf court eunuchs and imperial favorites
evaluatedByModernScholarshipAs tendentious but valuable source
genre historiography
genre history
historicalPeriod Late Antiquity
historicalValue important narrative of the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths
historicalValue important source for the early 5th century Roman Empire
influencedBy pagan traditionalist circles in the Eastern Empire
instanceOf Greek prose text
instanceOf historical work
instanceOf late antique historiographical work
language Ancient Greek
narrativeFocus Roman Empire
notableEventDescribed Sack of Rome 410 AD
surface form: Sack of Rome in 410
perspective pagan critique of Christian emperors
placeOfComposition Constantinople (probable)
portraysFigure Alaric I
portraysFigure Constantinus Magnus
surface form: Constantine the Great
portraysFigure Honorius
portraysFigure Stilicho
portraysFigure Theodosius I
religiousPerspective pagan
stanceTowardChristianity critical
stanceTowardImperialPolicy critical
structure divided into books
studiedInField Roman history
studiedInField classics
studiedInField late antique studies
subjectMatter military history of the Roman Empire
subjectMatter political history of the Roman Empire
subjectMatter religious policy of the Roman emperors
survivesIn incomplete form
timePeriodCovered Roman Empire from Augustus to early 5th century
transmittedThrough Byzantine manuscript tradition
usesSources earlier Greek historians
usesSources imperial documents and records
viewOnRomanDecline attributes decline to abandonment of traditional pagan cults
viewOnRomanDecline attributes decline to misgovernment and corruption
workTitleInGreek Νέα Ἱστορία