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Vitalis
(47 words)
[German version] Army leader in the war between the Eastern Roman empire and the Goths in Italy, recorded only in Procopius [3] (Goth. 3,10,2) under the name Βιτάλις/
Bitális as
magister militum per Illyricum
c. AD 539-544. PLRE 3, 1380 f., no. 1 (s. v. Vitalius). Tinnefeld, Franz (Munich)
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Anastasius
(1,079 words)
[German version] [1] A. I, AD 491-518 Byzantine emperor A. I, AD 491-518 Byzantine emperor, born
c. 431 in Dyrrachion, decurio of the Silentiarii under emperor Zeno the Isaurian, after whose death the widowed empress Ariadne pushed through A.'s selection and took him as her spouse. Ariadne also banned Longinus, the brother of Zeno; he had been regarded as the successor to Zeno. A revolt of the Isaurians which broke out as a consequence of this, was finally put down by A. only in 498. There was a revolt of the people of Constantinople in 512 caused by the preference of the empero…
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Strategius
(69 words)
[German version] [1] see Musonianus see Musonianus Tinnefeld, Franz (Munich) [German version] [2] Eastern Roman official, 6th cent. AD (Strategios). Eastern Roman official,
praef. Augustalis at Alexandria
c. AD 518-523, received the title
patrikios by 530 at the latest, and was head of the exchequer (
comes sacrarum largitionum) from AD 535 to
c. 538. Tinnefeld, Franz (Munich) Bibliography PLRE 2, 1034-1036, Nr. 9 Stein, Spätrömische Republik 2, 433, 476f.
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Historia Monachorum
(73 words)
[German version] Account, partly from secondary sources, of the journey that some Palestinian monks took to monastery centres in the Nile valley from the Thebaid to the Delta, composed
c. AD 395 by one of the travellers, often transmitted together with the
Historia Lausiaca of Palladius (
c. 400) (DHGE 24, 681f.). Tinnefeld, Franz (Munich) Bibliography A.-J. Festugière, Historia Monachorum in Aegypto, 1961 (Ed.) Lat. Übers. des Rufinus von Aquileia: PL 21, 387-462.
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Mundilas
(74 words)
[German version] (Μουνδίλας;
Moundílas). Eastern Roman officer in the body-guard of Belisarius during the Gothic War, attested between AD 537-539. M. was at Belisarius' side when he was besieged at Rome by the Gothic King Vitigis in 537-538, and he held Milan for nine months in 538 until finally forced to surrender to the Gothic besiegers and taken captive to Ravenna. Thereafter, he vanishes from history (PLRE 3, 901-903). Tinnefeld, Franz (Munich)
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Tatianus
(689 words)
I. Greek [German version] [I 1] Christian apologist and theologian, 2nd cent. (Τατιανός;
Tatianós). Christian apologist and theologian (born
c. AD 120). By his own account, T. was from the East Syrian/North Mesopotamian region (Or. 42). His work betrays a knowledge of classical authors relying upon Hellenistic scholarly tradition. His travels brought T. into contact with a variety of the philosophical and religious systems of his period (
i.a. participation in mystery cults, which he fails to define more precisely). In Rome, study of the Bible finally brought hi…
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Hesychius
(1,271 words)
(Ἡσύχιος;
Hēsýchios). [German version] [1] Alex. scholar, author of a lexicon Alexandrian scholar, author of an alphabetically arranged lexicon, which has passed down to us numerous fragments (primarily of poetry), allows many text variants to be restored, and is of special significance to the study of ancient classical exegesis, of dialects, and of the history of the Greek language. The basis for dating him is the
Epistula ad Eulogium, which introduces the lexicon: some scholars identify the addressee with Eulogius Scholasticus (5th cent. AD), others, includin…
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Michael
(1,757 words)
(Μιχαήλ/
Michaḗl; Mîkāēl). [German version] [1] Archangel Archangel, [1] One of the most prominent angels (cf. the description
archistratēgós, ‘supreme commander’ of the heavenly host, Joseph of Aseneth 14,8, cf. Slavonic Hen 22,5; 33,10), one of the seven (Ethiopic Hen 20,5) or four (Ethiopic Hen 9,1; 10,11) archangels (cf. [1]). The name means ‘who is like God’ or ‘who is victorious like God’. M., who was first mentioned in the ‘Book of Watchers (Ethiopic Hen 1-36, end of the 4th/beginning of the 2nd cent. BC)…
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Paroikoi
(244 words)
(πάροικοι;
pároikoi). [German version] [1] Free non-citizens in Hellenistic states and Roman provinces In the Hellenistic states of Asia Minor and the Near East and the Roman provinces that arose out of them, free people, mostly indigenous but without citizenship, living in
kṓmai (
kṓmē ) in the territory of a
pólis were predominantly called
paroikoi. In emergency situations, freed and non-free people, particularly those belonging to the (royal) farmers (
láoi), could be made
paroikoi, and
paroikoi from a
pólis's
synoikismós could be made citizens of that
pólis. In legal status wi…
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Constantianus
(133 words)
[German version] [1] Brother-in-law of Valentinian I, died c. 370 AD Brother-in-law of Valentinian I. He led the fleet of the Euphrates in 363 in Julian’s Persian campaign (Amm. Marc. 23,3,9; Zos. 3,13,3). In 370 when
tribunus stabuli in Valentinian’s Gaulish campaigns he was killed in an ambush (Amm. Marc. 28,2,10).
PLRE 1,221. Portmann, Werner (Berlin) [German version] [2] Byzantine general under Justinian I
Comes sacri stabuli (‘supervisor of the imperial stables’), Byzantine general in the war of Justinian I against the Goths; from 536 in Dalmatia; after…
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Leo
(2,156 words)
[German version] [1] see Domitius [II 17] Leo
Praefectus urbi under Elagabalus; see Domitius [II 17] Leo. Eck, Werner (Cologne) [German version] [2] Leo Narbonensis High-ranking Gaulish senator, 5th cent. AD High-ranking Gaulish senator (
vir spectabilis), a descendant of Fronto [6]; poet, orator, and jurist. As
consiliarius (‘adviser’) to the kings Euricus and Alaricus [3] II, L. was between
c. AD 475 and 484 (as a Roman) the most important official within the Visigoth kingdom. He wrote Euricus' speeches and received envoys on his behalf (such as in 474…
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Basileus
(3,191 words)
(βασιλεύς;
basileús). I. Mycenaean period up to the Hellenistic Monarchies [German version] A. Mycenaean The word
basileus has not yet been sufficiently explained etymologically. It is usually translated as ‘king’ and probably stems from the pre-Hellenistic substratum. The Mycenaean form
qa-si-re-u is evidently identical to βασιλεύς, but instead of designating the sovereign of a kingdom (he holds the title of
wa-na-ka), it refers to a considerably lower position.
Qa-si-re-u and its derivation
qa-si-re-wi-ja can be found about 20 times in the Linear-B archives of Cn…
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