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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Geo'rgius SYNCELLUS (search)
s, the Parisian editor, contended that we have the work of Syncellas in a complete form, but the contrary opinion seems to be the better founded. Possevino, Vossius, and others have identified Syncellus with Georgius Hamartolus [No. 27]; but Allatius has shown that this identification is erroneous. Syncellus has transcribed verbatim a considerable part of the Chronicon of Eusebius, so that his work has been employed to restore or complete the Greek text of the Chronicon. The Chronographia of Theophanes, which extends from A. D. 285 to A. D. 813, may be regarded as a continuation of that of Syncellus, and completes the author's original design. Editions The Bonn edition of Syncellus is edited by W. Dindorf, and, with the brief Chronographia of Nicephorus of Constantinople, occupies two volumes 8vo., 1829. Further Information Theophanes, Prooemium ad Chronog.; Cedren. Compend. sub init.; Allatius, Ibid. p. 24 ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 457; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 641.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Graptus (search)
in the monastery of St. Saba, near Jerusalem, and, according to his biographer, received ordination from the bishop of Sion, that is, as we understand it, the patriarch of Jerusalem. Theophanes is said to have emulated the devotion of his brother, but we have no account of his education or ordination. The iconoclastic controversy was raging, and the brothers were sent by the patriarch of Jerusalem to remonstrate with the emperor Leo V., the Armenian, a zealous iconoclast, who reigned from A. D. 813 to 820. The accomplishments and boldness of Theodore excited the emperor's admiration, but the pertinacious resistance of the brothers to his proceedings provoked his anger, and they were scourged, and banished from Constantinople. After the murder of Leo V., they were at first allowed by Michael II. the Stammerer (who reigned from A. D. 820 to 829) to return to that city, but were shortly afterwards again banished. Under Theophilus, the son of Michael (who reigned from A. D. 829 to 842),
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Igna'tius (search)
Igna'tius 3. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, competitor with Photius for the patriarchate in the ninth century. His original name was Nicetas (*Nikh/tas). He was son of the emperor Michael I. Curopalata or Rhangabe [MICHAEL I.], by Procopia, daughter of the emperor Nicephorus I. Logotheta, predecessor of Michael. During the short reign of his father (A. D. 811-813), Nicetas commanded the Icanates or life-guards, having been appointed to the post at about ten years of age, and manifested a desire to gain the favour of the soldiers : he also acquired some knowledge and experience in public business. If his age is accurately stated, he must lave been born just about the commencement of the century. On the deposition of Michael, and the accession of Leo V. the Armenian [LEO V.], the deposed emperor and his family shaved their heads, and took refuge in the church called Pharos (*Fa/ros). Their lives were spared, but Nicetas was castrated, and was obliged to embrace a monastic life, on which occasion h
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Leo V. or Fla'vius Leo Arme'nus emperor of Constantinople (A. D. 813-820), succeeded Michael I. Rhangabe, on the 11th of July, 813: he was of noble Armenian descent, and the son of the celebrated Bardas Patricius. Leo enjoyed great renown as a skilful and intrepid general, and was highly esteemed by the emperor Nicephorus I. (802-811), whom he rewarded, however, with treachery. He was punished with exile, from which he was recalled in 811 by his friend Michael I., who succeeded Nicephorus in that year. Michael appointed him dux Orientis, and was served in the same way as his predecessor. The wife of Michael, Procopia, having obtained great influence over her husband, was the cause of a wide-spread disaffection of the army, and Leo availed himself of this circumstance to seize the crown. There is a story of an old woman at Constantinople, a prophetess, who predicted the speedy downfall of Michael and the elevation of Leo, who seems to have turned the superstition of the Greeks to his
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Leo GRAMMATICUS (search)
o Grammaticus is perhaps identical with the Leo Asinus, o( *)Asino/s, mentioned by Joannes Scylitza (apud Montfaucon, Biblioth. Coislin, p. 209). Works *Xronografi/a, ta\ tw=n ne/wn *Basile/wn perie/xonsa, Chronographia Res a Recentioribus Imperatoribus Gestas Complectens The work of Leo Grammaticus is entitled *Xronografi/a, ta\ tw=n ne/wn *Basile/wn perie/xonsa, Chronographia Res a Recentioribus Imperatoribus Gestas Complectens, and extends from the accession of Leo V. the Armenian, A. D. 813, to the death of Romanus Lecapenus, A. D. 948 or 949, not, as Cave inaccurately states, to A. D. 1013. Leo has little in common with the anonymous continuator of Theophanes [LEONTIUS, No. 6] in that part of his work which comprehends the period before Basil the Macedonian; but in the latter part the two authors have many passages either identical or varying but little from each other: but the uncertainty attaching to the date of Leo's work makes it doubtful which was the first written. T
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
genuine; but, according to Cave, the greater part of the remaining 417, which are extant in MSS. in different libraries, can be traced to Metaphrastes. Editions The principal lives are published, Greek and Latin, in Bollandii Acta Sanctorum. Agapius, a monk, made an extract of them, which was published under the title Liber dictus Paraclitus sen illustrium Sanctorum Vitae, desumptae ex Simeone Metaphraste, Venice, 1541, 4to. 2. Annales Annales, beginning with the emperor Leo Armenus (A. D. 813-820), and finishing with Romanus, the son of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who reigned from 959-963. It is evident that the Metaphrastes who was ambassador in 902 cannot possibly be the author of a work that treats on matters which took place 60 years afterwards: thence some believe that the latter part of the Annales was written by another Metaphrastes, while Baronius thinks that the author of the whole of that work lived in the 12th century. Editions The Annales were published with a L
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theo'phanes or Theo'phanes Isaacius (search)
lace, and went to live in the island of Calonymus, where he converted his paternal estate into a monastery. After a residence of six years there, he returned to the neighbourhood of Singriana, where he purchased an estate, called by the simple name of Ager ()/agros), and founded another monastery, of which he made himself the abbot. In A. D. 787, he was summoned to the second Council of Nicaea, where he vehemently defended the worship of images. We have no further details of his life until A. D. 813. when he was required by Leo the Armenian to renounce the worship of images, and, upon his refusal, though he was extremely ill, and had been bed-ridden for five years, he was carried to Constantinople, and there, after a further period of resistance to the command of the emperor to renounce his principles, he was cast into prison, at the close of the year 815 or the beginning of 816 and, after two years' imprisonment, he was banished to the island of Samothrace, where he died, only twenty