born probably between 490 and 507, Caesarea, Palestine
Byzantine historian.
He advised Belisarius on his first Persian campaign (527531) and fought the Vandals in Africa until 536. He was in Sicily with Belisarius and fought the Goths in Italy until 540, and he described the plague in Constantinople in 542. His books Polemon ("Wars"), Peri Ktismaton ("Buildings"), and Anecdota ("Secret History") are valuable sources for his period's history.