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Sozomen

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Greek:
Salamanes Hermeios Sozomenos
Born:
c. 380, Bethelea, near Gaza, Palestine
Died:
c. 450, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Tur.]

Sozomen (born c. 380, Bethelea, near Gaza, Palestine—died c. 450, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Tur.]) was a Christian lawyer in Constantinople whose church history, distinguished for its classical literary style, its favouring of monasticism, and its greater use of western European sources, rivaled that of his elder contemporary Socrates Scholasticus. Dedicating the project to the reigning Byzantine emperor, Theodosius II (408–450), Sozomen compiled his work in nine books to cover the period 324 to 439. The surviving text, however, ends at 425, raising the question of whether the final part was suppressed or lost. Sozomen possibly intended to recast ...(100 of 173 words)

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