Famous for his justice, Shah Khosro I was a strong supporter of Mazdean Zoroastrianism and cultivated the study of literature and philosophy at his court. He suppressed the followers of the apocalyptic preacher Mazdak and introduced a variety of reforms to the bureaucracy of the Sasanid state. He had literature translated from Greek, Syriac, and Sanskrit into Middle Persian, kept up with the latest astronomical observations, and entertained at his court philosophers exiled from Athens. In 561, he negotiated a fifty year peace with his rivals in Byzantium, though the treaty was broken in 571 during an Armenian revolt.
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