Praxagoras of Athens was a

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historian in the early 4th century AD. He was born in

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and wrote three historical works, which are all lost: a history of the ''

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'', a history of

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, and a panegyric biography of the emperor

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. A few fragments of the biography of Constantine are preserved in the ''Bibliotheca'' of

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(cod. 62).
Dindorf's 1870 Minor Greek Historians
Praxagoras' fragments start on page 438.

Bibliography

* Andrea Basile: ''Propaganda costantiniana e cultura ellenica in Prassagora di Atene'', dissert. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano 1990/91. * Pawel Janiszewski: ''The Missing Link. Greek Pagan Historiography in the Second Half of the Third Century and in the Fourth Century AD.'', Warsaw 2006. {{Authority control Late-Roman-era pagans 4th-century Byzantine historians Late Antique writers 4th-century Romans Ancient Athenian historians