Strategios Podopaguros

Strategios Podopaguros ( Middle Greek Στρατήγιος Ποδοπάγουρος ; † August 25, 766 in Constantinople ) was a Byzantine aristocrat and conspirator against Emperor Constantine V. The epithet Podopaguros means "crab foot".

Life

The Spatharios and Domestikos of the Exubites Strategios led in 766 together with his brother Constantine a large-scale conspiracy against Emperor Constantine V, in which, according to Theophanes, a total of 19 high dignitaries were involved, including several thematic strategists . However, the emperor managed to nip the revolt in the bud. On August 25, 766, Constantine V had the conspirators brought before the hippodrome . Strategios and his brother were beheaded , the others blinded and banished .

Theophanes claims that the stoning of the hermit Stephanos from Mount Auxentios in 765, during the height of the crisis between Constantine V and part of the monasticism , was the trigger for the conspiracy. Today, however, research assumes that the event had a different political background and was only subsequently brought into connection with the iconoclast .

swell

• Nikephoros , Historia Syntomos 83 (in the edition by Cyril Mango )
• Theophanes AM 6259 (p. 438 in the edition by Carl de Boor )

literature

• Leslie Brubaker: Inventing Byzantine Iconoclasm . Bristol Classical Press, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-85399-750-1 , specifically pp. 47-49.
• Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 4: Plato (# 6266) - Theophylaktos (# 8345). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-016674-7 , p. 273 No. 7130.
• Ilse Rochow: Byzantium in the 8th century as seen by Theophanes. Source-critical historical commentary on the years 715–813 (= Berlin Byzantine works. Vol. 57). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-05-000700-1 , pp. 191–192, 204–205.
• Warren Treadgold : A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1997, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2 , p. 364.