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gives an account of the work of Theophanes, and he repeats the author's statement that, besides adding other books to the ten which formed the original work, he had written another work on the history of Justinian. Among the historical statements preserved by Photius from Theophanes is the discovery,
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was broken, and going down to last year of the war. The work has not survived, but
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He wrote, in ten books, the history of the Eastern Empire during the
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Theophanes the Confessor
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Byzantine
Persian war
Justin II
Justinian I
Khosrau I
Patriarch Photius
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Seres
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Annianus of Alexandria
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Olympiodorus of Thebes
Panodorus of Alexandria
Philostorgius
Priscus
Sabinus of Heraclea

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