Agathias (c. 530 - 582/594)

Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθίας σχολαστικός) c. AD 530-582/594), of Myrina (Mysia), an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor (now in Turkey), was a Greek poet and the principal historian of part of the reign of the Roman emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558.