Zosimus (fl. 490s-510s) was a Byzantine historian, who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I (491-518). According to Photius, he was a comes, and held the office of "advocate" of the imperial treasury. Historia Nova Zosimus' Historia Nova, "New History",'s in six books. For the period from 238 to 270, he apparently uses (Dexippus; for the period from 270 to 404, Eunapius; and after 407, Olympiodorus). His slavish dependence upon his sources's made clea… (More on Zosimus)