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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Anasta'sius Ii. emperor of CONSTANTINOPLE. The original name of this emperor was Artemius, and he was one of the ministers (Protoasecretis) of the emperor Philippicus, who had his eyes put out by the traitor Rufus, in the month of June A. D. 713. Artemius, universally esteemed for his character and his qualities, was chosen in his stead, and, although his reign was short and disturbed by troubles, he gave sufficient proofs of being worthy to reign. After having punished Rufus and his accomplices, he appointed the Isaurian Leo, who became afterwards emperor, his general in chief against the Lazes and other Caucasian nations, and himself made vigorous preparations against the Arabs, by whom the southern provinces of the empire were then continually harassed. He formed the bold plan of burning the naval stores of the enemy on the coast of Syria, stores necessary for the construction of a large fleet, with which the Arabs intended to lay siege to Constantinople. The commander of the Byza
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Geor'gius BURAPHUS (search)
Geor'gius BURAPHUS 9. BURAPHUS (*Bou/rafos), the patrician, count of the Thema Obsequium, comprehending the parts of Mysia and Bithynia adjacent to the Propontis. He was in Thrace with his forces, defending that province from the Bulgarians, when he entered into a conspiracy with Theodore Myacius to dethrone the emperor Philippicus, or Bardanes, who was seized and blinded (A. D. 713) by Rufus, an officer sent by George to Constantinople with a few soldiers. But George himself and his principal accomplices suffered the same fate very shortly after at the hands of the new emperor Artemius or Anastasius II. (Nicephor. Constantinop. De Rebus post Mauric. Gestis, p. 55, ed. Bonn.; Theophanes, Chronog. vol. i. p. 587, 588, ed. Bonn.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Fla'vius> Isaurus (search)
s> or Fla'vius> Isaurus surnamed ISAURUS, or the Isaurian, emperor of Constantinople (A. D. 718-741), and one of the most remarkable of the emperors of the East, was a native of Isauria, and the son of a respectable farmer, who settled in Thrace, taking his son with him. Young Conon, which was Leo's original name, obtained the place of a spatharius in the army of the emperor Justinian II. Rhinotmetus, and soon rose to eminence through his military talents. Anastasius II., who reigned from A. D. 713-716, gave him the supreme command in Asia, which he was still holding when Theodosius III. deposed that emperor, and seized the crown in January, 716. Summoned to acknowledge Theodosius, the gallant general called him an usurper, and immediately took up arms against him, alleging that he would restore the deposed Anastasius to the throne, but really intending to make himself master of the empire. Artabazes, the commander of the Armenian legions, supported Leo, who had besides many friends
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theodo'rus ANAGNOSTES (search)
e subject of this article, as critics generally seem to admit, he must have written on other subjects than ecclesiastical history, and have lived at a considerably later period than is generally supposed. The extracts chiefly or wholly relate to the statues with which Constantinople was adorned; and one of them (p. 11, Combéfis, p. 88, Bandurius) contains a curious incident in the personal history of the writer which shows him to have lived in the reign of the emperor Philippicus (A. D. 711-713), nearly two centuries after the reign of Justin I., in which Theodorus is usually placed. Another extract notices statues of the daughter and niece of the empress Sophia, wife of Justin II., which also implies the writer to have lived long after the time of Justin I. Though there seems no decisive reason for identifying the writer on the statues with the ecclesiastical historian, yet the name and title render their identity not improbable : and it may be observed that Damascenus, the earlies