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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, ind held by robbers and swindlers without any titles, or under fraudulent ones. Constantine's end was hastened by poison, administered to him by an ungrateful son, Romanus (his successor), in consequence of which he died on the 15th of November, A. D. 959. His wife was Helena, by whom he had the above-mentioned son Romanus, a daughter Theodora, married to Joannes Züniscus, and other children. Works Constantine Porphyrogenitus holds a high rank in literature. His productions are no masterworks
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Leo DIACONUS (search)
comp. Cedren. Compend. vol. ii. p. 438, ed. Bonn) of A. D. 987. Works The works of Leo Diaconus comprehend 1. *(Istori/a *Bibli/ois u/, Historia Libris decem 2. Oratio ad Basilium Imperatorem 3. (unless it be the work of another Leo Diaconus) Homilia in Michaelem Archangelum The two last are extant only in MS. *(Istori/a *Bibli/ois u/, Historia Libris decem The history of Leo includes the period from the Cretan expedition of Nicephorus Phocas, in the reign of the emperor Romanus II., A. D. 959, to the death of Joannes I. Tzimisces, A. D. 975. It relates the victories of the emperors Nicephorus and Tzimisces over the Mohammedans in Cilicia and Syria, and the recovery of those countries, or the greater part of them, to the Byzantine empire ; and the wars of the same emperors with the Bulgarians and Russians. The style of Leo is described by Hase as vicious : he employs unusual and inappropriate words (many of them borrowed from Homer, Agathias, the historian, and the Septuagint),
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.
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Roma'nus Ii. or the Younger, Byzantine emperor from A. D. 959-963, the son and successor of Constantine VII. Porphyrogenitus, was born in 939, and succeeded his father on the fifteenth of November 959. His short reign offers a few events of note. Endowed with great personal beauty and bodily strength, he preferred gymnastics, hunting, and other pleasures to the duties of an emperor, which he left to his minister Bringas. His wretched wife Theophano, who had persuaded him to poison his father, was no sooner independent than she excited Romanus against his own family; his five sisters were compelled to leave the palace, and confined in the same convent where Sophia, the widow of Christophorus Augustus had then been during thirty years; but the empress dowager, Helena, possessed too much energy to yield to her daughter-in-law, and she accordingly remained in the palace, but she died soon afterwards of a broken heart. Although Romanus never showed himself in the field, he had two renowne