Theophylact Simocatta
Early 7th-century Byzantine historian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the historian. For the bishop and biblical commentator of the same name, see Theophylact of Ohrid.
Theophylact Simocatta (Byzantine Greek: Θεοφύλακτος Σιμοκάτ(τ)ης Theophýlaktos Simokát(t)ēs; Latin: Theophylactus Simocatta)[1] was an early seventh-century Byzantine historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of Late Antiquity, writing in the time of Heraclius (c. 630) about the late Emperor Maurice (582–602).[2]