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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), A'rethas (search)
A'rethas 2. Presbyter of Caesareia in Cappadocia, wrote a work " on the translation of St. Euthymius, patriarch of Constantinople," who died A. D. 911. The date of Arethas is therefore fixed at 920. (Oudinus, Comment. de Script. Eccles. ii. p. 426, who, without sufficient reason, identifies the former Arethas with this writer.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Bassus Scholasticus (search)
Bassus, Cassia'nus or Bassus Scholasticus surnamed Scholasticus, was in all probability the compiler of the Geoponica (*Gewponika/), or work on Agriculture, which is usually ascribed to the emperor Constantine Porphyrogeneta. (A. D. 911-959.) Cassianus Bassus appears to have compiled it by the command of this emperor, who has thus obtained the honour of the work. Of Bassus we know nothing, save that he lived at Constantinople, and was born at Maratonymum, probably a place in Bithynia. (Geopon. 5.6, comp. 5.36.) Works Geoponica The work itself, which is still extant, consists of twenty books, and is compiled from various authors, whose names are always given, and of whom the following is an alphabetical list:- Sex. Julius Africanus Anatolicus of Berytus [p. 161b.] Appuleius Aratus of Soli Aristoteles, the philosopher Damogeron Democritus Didymus of Alexandria Cassius Dionysius of Utica Diophanes of Nicaea Florentinus Fronto Hierocles, governor of Bithynia under Diocletian Hipp
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Constanti'nus Vii. Porphyroge'nitus or Constanti'nus Porphyroge'nitus or Constanti'nus Vii. Porphyroge'nitus (search)
Fla'vius Constanti'nus Vii. Porphyroge'nitus or Constanti'nus Vii. Porphyroge'nitus or Constanti'nus Porphyroge'nitus or Constanti'nus Vii. Porphyroge'nitus （o( *Porfuroge/nnhtos), emperor of the East, A. D. 911-959, the only son of the emperor Leo VI. Philosophus, of the Macedonian dynasty, and his fourth wife, Zoe, was born in A. D. 905; the name *Porfuroge/nnhtos, that is, " born in the purple," was given to him because he was born in an apartment of the imperial palace called po/rfura, in which the empresses awaited their confinement. The name Porphyrogenitus is also given to Constantine VI., but it is generally employed to distinguish the subject of this article. Constantine succeeded his father in 911, and reigned under the guardianship of his paternal uncle, Alexander, who was already Augustus, governed the empire as an absolute monarch, and died in the following year, 912. After his death the government was usurped by Romanus Lecapenus, who excluded Constantine from the adm
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Grego'rius (search)
Grego'rius 21. MONACHUS, the MONK. Gregory is not accurately described by the title Monk, as he lived on the proceeds of his own property, a farm in Thrace, though much given to ascetic practices and entertaining a great reverence for religious persons. His spiritual director having died, he attached himself to St. Basil the younger, the ascetic, who lived during and after the reign of Leo VI. the Philosopher (A. D. 886-911), and is supposed to have survived as late as A. D. 952. After his death, Gregory composed two memoirs of him; the more prolix appears to have perished, the other is given by the Bollandists in the Acta Sanctorum, Martii, vol. iii.; the Latin version in the body of the work, p. 667, &c., and the original in the Appendix, p. 24, &c. This memoir, though crammed with miraculous stories,contains several notices of contemporary public men and political events: and a considerable extract of it is given by Combefis in the Historiae Byzantinae Scriptores post Theophanem,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Fla'vius> Sa'piens or Fla'vius Philosophus (search)
Fla'vius> Leo Vi. or Fla'vius> Sa'piens or Fla'vius Philosophus surnamed SA'PIENS and PHILO'SOPHUS, emperor of Constantinople (A. D. 886-911), second son of Basil I., the Macedonian, by his second wife, Eudoxia, was born in A. D. 865, and succeeded his father on the 1st of March, 886, after having previously been created Augustus. A short time before the death of Basil, young Leo narrowly escaped the punishment of a parricide, a crime, however, of which he was not guilty, but of which he was accused by the minister, Santabaren, the knavish favourite of the emperor. As soon as Leo ascended the throne he prepared for revenge. He began by deposing the notorious patriarch Photius, who was the chief support of Santabaren; and having got rid of that dangerous intriguer, he had the minister arrested, deprived him of his eyes, and banished him to one of the remotest corners of Asia Minor. The reign of Leo presents an uninterrupted series of wars and conspiracies. In 887 and 888 the Arabs inv
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Nonnus, Theo'phanes （*Qeofanh\s *No/nnos,) sometimes called Nonus, a Greek medical writer who lived in the tenth century after Christ, as his work is dedicated to the emperor Constantinus Porphyrogenitus, A. D. 911-959, at whose command it was composed. Though commonly called Nonnus, it is supposed by some persons that his real name was Theophanes. Works *)Epitomh\ th=s *)Iatrikh=s a(pa/shs *Te/xnhs, Compendium totius Artis Medicae His work is entitled *)Epitomh\ th=s *)Iatrikh=s a(pa/shs *Te/xnhs, Compendium totius Artis Medicae, and consists of two hundred and ninety short chapters; it is compiled almost entirely from previous writers, especially Alexander Trallianus, Aetius, and Paulus Aegineta, whom, however, he does not once mention by name. Almost the only point worthy of notice is that (according to Sprengel) he is the earliest Greek medical writer, who makes distinct mention of distilled rose-water, an article which his countrymen seem to have gained from the Arabians.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Zoe (search)
Zoe 1. Surnamed Carbonopsina, the wife of Leo VI. the philosopher, who reigned A. D. 886-911. She survived her husband. and her effigy appears on the coins of her son Constantinus VII. Porphyrogenitus. (Eckhel, vol. viii. pp. 246-248.) [LEO VI.; CONSTANTINUS VII.]