Theophylact Simocatta

Early 7th-century Byzantine historian

Lived
580–630
Country
Byzantine Empire

Updated September 2026

About Theophylact Simocatta

Theophylact Simocatta was an early seventh-century Byzantine historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of late antiquity, writing in the time of Heraclius about the late Emperor Maurice (582–602).

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