6th-century Byzantine writers

Byzantine Emperor (539-602)

Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus (), was a Roman statesman, scholar, and writer who served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank. In his later years, he devoted himself to Christian learning and founded the Vivarium monastery, where he worked extensively during the final decades of his life.

Agathias Scholasticus (; 582/594) was a Byzantine poet and the principal historian of part of the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558.

Greek philosopher

Byzantine saint

ancient Greek scientist and architect

6th-century Greek traveller and merchant

Byzantine Greek architect

Damascius (; ; 462 – after 538), known as "the last of the Athenian Neoplatonists", was the last scholarch of the neoplatonic Athenian school. He was one of the neoplatonic philosophers who left Athens after laws confirmed by emperor Justinian I forced the closure of the Athenian school in c. 529 AD. After he left Athens, he may have sought refuge in the court of the Persian King Chrosroes, before being allowed back into the Byzantine Empire. His surviving works consist of three commentaries on the works of Plato, and a metaphysical text entitled Difficulties and Solutions of First Princ

Byzantine philologist and philosopher (c. 490–c. 570)

6th-century Greek pagan philosopher

6th-century Byzantine grammarian and geographer

Tribonian (Greek: Τριβωνιανός [trivonia'nos], – 542) was a jurist and advisor of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine). During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I, he supervised the revision of the empire's legal code. He has been described as one of the wisest collaborators of Justinian.

Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638

thumb|270px|right|Priscian, or the Grammar, relief from the bell tower of Florence by [[Luca della Robbia]] Priscianus Caesariensis (), commonly known as Priscian ( or ), was a Latin grammarian and the author of the Institutes of Grammar, which was the standard textbook for the study of Latin during the Middle Ages. It also provided the raw material for the field of speculative grammar.

5th/6th century Greek philologist and lexicographer

5th-century Greek philosopher

Byzantine mathematician

Patriarch of Antioch

ancient Greek monk

early 6th-century Byzantine physician

eminent ancient physician

Byzantine poet

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

Neoplatonist philosopher (c.495–570)

6th-century Byzantine historian

thumb|De laudibus Iustini Augusti, published in Antwerp in 1581 Flavius Cresconius Corippus (floruit 565) was a Roman African epic poet who flourished under East Roman emperors Justinian I and Justin II. His major works are the epic poem Iohannis, a panegyric called "Panegyric of Anastasius", and a poem in praise of the Emperor Justin II, In laudem Iustini minoris. Corippus was probably the last important Latin author of Late Antiquity.

Patriarch of Constantinople

archbishop of Ravenna

6th-century Byzantine administrator and antiquarian scholar

Assyrian writer and theologian (died 523)

Byzantine sophist and rhetorician

Coluthus or Colluthus of Lycopolis (; ) was a Greek-Egyptian epic poet of the late Roman Empire who flourished during the reign of Anastasius I in the Thebaid.

Aristaenetus () was an ancient Greek epistolographer who flourished in the 5th or 6th century. Under his name, two books of love stories, in the form of letters, are extant; the subjects are borrowed from the erotic elegies of such Alexandrian writers as Callimachus, and the language is a patchwork of phrases from Plato, Lucian, Alciphron and others.

Egyptian saint

Byzantine grammarian, author of geographical work Synekdemos (6th century AD)

Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, Egypt

priest and chronicler

Greek theological writer; bishop of Caesarea

Patriarch of Constantinople

Egyptian saint and archbishop

Christodorus (), a Greek epic poet from Coptos in Egypt, flourished during the reign of Anastasius I (491–518). His father was named Paniskos (Πανίσκος).

Patriarch of Constantinople

Greek Patriarch of Antioch

Byzantine theologian

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch

Longobard monk and historian

Syriac writer

6th century African Church theologian

deacon in Constantinople

Rhetorius of Egypt () was the last major classical astrologer from whom we have any excerpts. He lived in the sixth or early seventh century, in the early Byzantine era. He wrote an extensive compendium in Greek of the techniques of the Hellenistic astrologers who preceded him, and is one of our best sources for the work of Antiochus of Athens. Although no intact original manuscript survives of his work, we do have several late Byzantine versions of it.

Roman priest and theologian

writer on agriculture

ancient/early Medieval Greek philosopher

bishop of Hadrumetum (6th century)

Junillus Africanus (floruit 541–549) was Quaestor of the Sacred Palace (quaestor sacri palatii) in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. He is best known for his work on biblical exegesis, Instituta regularia divinae legis. According to M.L.W. Laistner, Junillus' work was based on the writings of one of the teachers of the School of Nisibis, Paul the Persian, and because Paul had been influenced by the writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia, Junillus' Instituta helped make Western theologians familiar with the Antiochene school of exegesis.

Byzantine lawyer

Byzantine writer and poet

6th century Greek author of a book on animals

neo-Platonist philosopher