Author(s):
Nutton, Vivian (London)
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Groß-Albenhausen, Kirsten (Frankfurt/Main)
(Ὀλύμπιος;
Olýmpios). [German version] [1] Court doctor of Constantine [2] II, 4th cent. Doctor, friend (and pupil) of Libanius, whom he treated in AD 354 for pains in the head and kidneys. In the two years that followed he visited Rome from where he returned to Constantinople and became court physician to Constantine [2] II (Lib. Ep. 51; 65; 353; 534; 539). Nutton, Vivian (London) [German version] [2] Office bearer (4th cent. AD) O. of Antioch, around AD 355
consularis
Macedoniae, senator first in Rome, then (from 358) in Constantinople where in 361 he achieved exemption from
munera (
munus ) for newly settled senators after he himself had been taken into service for a namesake; in 387 he stood up for the Antiochenes [1. 170-183] after the uprising in which statues of the reigning emperor Theodosius I and his family had been knocked down because of a special tax; he died in 388/89. Libanius, with whom he was in active contact, was one of his heirs. PLRE 1, 643f. No. 3. Groß-Albenhausen, Kirsten (Frankfurt/Main) Bibliography
1 K. Groß-Albenhausen, Imperator christianissimus, 1999. [German version] [3] Tax assessor (4th cent. AD) O. of Antioch, tax assessor in AD 362/63, favoured Christians although he was not one himself (Lib. Ep. 1397; 1412; 1414; 1433). Later he participated in a delegation, probably the one congratulating Iovianus on his accession to the throne in 363. Groß-Albenhausen, Kirsten (Frankfurt/Main) [German version] [4] Of Antioch, fellow student of Libanius…