Theognostus

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Theognostos or Theognostos Grammatikos (Greek Θεόγνωστος ὁ Γραμματικός , Latin Theognostus Grammaticus ) is the name of a Byzantine historian and grammarist who lived in the first half of the 9th century.

Theognostos possibly came from Sicily and wrote an orthographic work dedicated to Emperor Leon V , which has also been preserved. It contains 1006 canons , which deal mainly with the endings of words. He relied on older sources, but also added his own thoughts.

Theognostos is also briefly mentioned in Theophanes Continuatus as the author of a historical work that is now lost. Accordingly, Theognostos described the elevation of Euphemios in Sicily in the 820s. Theognostos will hardly have limited himself to this event. Warren Treadgold assumes that a mention by Johannes Skylitzes can be interpreted in such a way that Theognostos attempted to write an extensive historical work. If this is true, Theognostos (following the pattern typical of the genre) will have dealt with contemporary history more intensively, but the work does not seem to have been particularly widespread.

Text output

  • John Anthony Cramer (Ed.): Anecdota Graeca e codd. ms. bibliothecarum Oxoniensium. Vol. 2. Oxford 1835, pp. 1ff.

literature

  • Klaus Alpers: Theognostos. Tradition, sources and text of canons 1–84. Diss. Hamburg 1964 (with a new partial edition).
  • Herbert Hunger : The high-level profane literature of the Byzantines. Vol. 1. Beck, Munich 1978, p. 340; Vol. 2, Munich 1978, pp. 19f.
  • Warren Treadgold : The Middle Byzantine Historians. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2013, pp. 79-90.
  • Friedhelm Winkelmann u. a .: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine period . 1st department. Vol. 4. De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, pp. 563f., No. 8012.

Remarks

  1. ^ Warren Treadgold: The Middle Byzantine Historians. Basingstoke 2013, p. 89.
  2. ↑ Overview with reference to the corresponding manuscripts in Herbert Hunger: The high-language profane literature of the Byzantines . Vol. 2. Munich 1978, p. 20.
  3. ↑ Theophanes Continuatus II 27.
  4. ^ Warren Treadgold: The Middle Byzantine Historians. Basingstoke 2013, pp. 80f.
  5. ^ Warren Treadgold: The Middle Byzantine Historians. Basingstoke 2013, pp. 89f.
personal data
SURNAME Theognostus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine historian and grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century or 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 9th century