Agathias

Agathias Scholasticus (about AD 530 to 582 or 594) was a Byzantine poet and historian who also practiced law, pleading cases as an advocate in the courts of Constantinople under the title scholasticus. He is the principal historian of part of the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, covering the years 552 to 558 in his Histories, which he wrote as a continuation of the earlier history of Procopius. He also compiled more than one hundred epigrams into a collection known as the Cycle of Agathias, and his writing is the only surviving authority for Justinian's closure of the Platonic Academy in Athens.