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The History of Eustathius of Capidocia

Heidi Schlumpf: So Iamblachus dies some time around the year 333, roughly 335. Eunapius mentions a bunch of his students, Sopater the Syrian who went to the court of Constantine and ends up being assassinated in a conspiracy against him. And this guy, Eustathius of Capidocia, who ends up marrying sociopathra. He says he's sent on an embassy to Sopor, or Sopor, by Constantine. But Amiano's Markelinos, who our listeners may remember, is the sort of other historian who covers this era really well. It's very level-headed compared to Eunicus' hagi

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