Nonnosus (Historian)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Nonnosus (Historian)
Other forms of name
Nόnnosos (Historian)
Start period
05
Associated country
Byzantine Empire
Field of activity
History
Diplomacy
Occupation
Ambassadors
Historians
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 2823898
Wikidata: Q2087399
Library of congress: no2022142337
OCoLC: oca14961761
DLC: no2022142337
Sources of Information
  • Wikipedia, viewed November 18, 2022(Nonnosus (Greek: Νóννοσος, romanized: Nόnnosos) was an ambassador sent by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I to the king of the Axumites (in Ethiopia and parts of the Arabian Peninsula) around 530 CE ; he wrote an account of that visit, now lost, that was read and summarized by Byzantine patriarch Photius in Codex 3 of his Bibliotheca)
  • The Persian wars, 2022:preliminary pages ([includes] a further Greek text, that of Nonnosus)