Theocritus (Byzantium)
Theocritus ( Latinized form; Greek Θεόκριτος Theókritos ; † July 518 in Constantinople ) was an Eastern Roman pretender to the throne .
According to Johannes Malalas , the praepositus sacri cubiculi and eunuch Amantius intended to have the domesticus Theocritus elevated to the new emperor after the death of Anastasius I. Thanks to Amantius, Theocritus had enough money to buy the support of other dignitaries at court and the senators. Presumably he also gave a larger sum to the comes excubitorum Justin , which the latter successfully used for his own ambitions for the throne, especially since as commander of the palace guard he had the only powerful troops in Constantinople. Both Theocritus and Amantius were executed nine days after Justin's rule.
swell
- Euagrios Scholastikos , Historia ecclesiastica IV , 2
- Marcellinus Comes , ad annum 519.
literature
- John Robert Martindale: Theocritus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 1065.
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| SURNAME | Theocritus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Theocritus; Θεόκριτος (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Eastern Roman pretender to the throne |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 518 |
| Place of death | Constantinople |