Ἰσαυρικά), celebrating Anastasius' victory in the Isaurian War (492–497); three books of epigrams; and many other works.
697, 698) we possess a description of eighty statues of gods, heroes and famous men and women in the gymnasium of Zeuxippus at Constantinople (Ἔκφρασις τῶν ἀγαλμάτων τῶν εἰς τὸ δημόσιον γυμνάσιον τὸ ἐπικαλουμένον τοῦ Ζευξίππου).
[2] The writer's chief models are Homer and Nonnus, whom he follows closely in the structure of his hexameters.
Some critics regard it as of great importance for the history of art and a model of description; others consider it valueless, alike from the historical, mythological and archaeological points of view.
[2] See Friedrich Baumgarten, De Christodoro Poeta Thebano, Bonn (1881), and his article in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, III (1897) 2450–2452; Wilhelm von Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898); Francesco Tissoni, Cristodoro.