The basic aim of the present dissertation is to reconstruct the image of Byzantine emperors found in Evagrius Scholastic’s
Ecclesiastical History, written at the end of the sixth century in Antioch. The present work analyzes this image in a broad
historical and literary context, pointing out the similarities and differences between it and descriptions of emperors found in
earlier works belonging to the literary genre of ecclesiastical history, as well as in other historiographic works of late antiquity
