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The Church Fathers · c. 622–630
The Historical Poems
George of Pisidia · 7th century
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What it is
Verse accounts of Heraclius's Persian campaigns and the siege of Constantinople, alongside a poem on the six days of creation.
Why it lasted
The finest Byzantine poetry of its century, and a contemporary account of the wars that exhausted both empires just before the Arab conquests.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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