Cassiodorus, now probably in his mid-nineties, dies …
Years: 585 - 585
Cassiodorus, now probably in his mid-nineties, dies at Vivarium around 585.
He leaves a number of literary works include the (now vanished) De origine actibusque Getarum, a history of the Goths; a world history; Variae epistolae, orthographic models of correspondence; a commentary on the psalms; and a set of intellectual guidelines for his monks, the Institutiones divinarum et humanarum lectionum.
Locations
People
Groups
- Goths (East Germanic tribe)
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
- Ravenna, Exarchate of
