Anatolios 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL IX/E X
Dates916 (taq) / 916 (tpq)
ReligionChristian
LocationsLydia (birthplace);
Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) (officeplace);
Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence);
Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople)
OccupationHegoumenos;
Monk
TitlesHegoumenos, Stoudios (Constantinople) (office)
Textual SourcesTheodoros Studites, Jamben auf verschiedene Gegenstände. Einleitung, kritischer Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar, ed. P. Speck, Supplementa Byzantina 1 (Berlin, 1968) (poetry);
Vita Nicetae Hegoumeni Medicii, Auctore Theostericto (BHG 1341), AASS April I, Appendix, pp. xviii-xxviii (hagiography);
Vita Nicolai Studitae (BHG 1365), PG 105. 863-925 (hagiography)

This person belongs chronologically in PBE II

Anatolios 1 was a monk of the Stoudite monastery and hegoumenos in 916 when the monk Ioannes 154 copied out the Life of St Niketas of Medikion (Niketas 43): subscription of the Codex Vaticanus graecus 1660, ff. 366-408 (BHG 1341) (ἐπὶ Ἀνατολίου τοῦ ὁσιωτάτου ἡγουμένου τῶν Στουδίου). This is dated to AM 6424 (= AD 915/916), in a first indiction (NB: AD 915/916 was a fourth indiction), on 1 March (or 21 March); see BHG 1341, 50 (p. xxvii).

Anatolios 1 was head of the Stoudite monastery for many years and it was he who gave the tonsure to the monk (Anonymus 276) who later wrote the Life of Nikolaos the Stoudite (Nikolaos 26) (τοῦ τὸν ἀνάξιόν ἐμε ἀποκείραντος καὶ χρόνοις πολλοῖς τὴν καθ' ἡμᾶς μονὴν διιθύνοντος); he also supplied him with some information, telling him the story of Nikolaos 27 that he himself had heard from Kyprianos 5: Vita Nic. Stud. 893A, and see (for the name of the scholarios) Synax. Eccl. Const. 341/342, 22-343/344, 35, 36ffh, 37 (24 December) (BHG 2311, cf. 1317h).

See further PBE II and the following reference: Vita Euthymii (de Boor; BHG 651) (Karlin-Hayter; BHG 651 = Byz 25/27, 8-152).

Anatolios 1 was responsible for the writing of the Life of Blasios, in 916: see Vita Blasii (BHG 278) 19 (p. 666).

Possibly identical with Anatolios, a native of Lydia, who was hegoumenos of the monastery of Stoudios some time after Theodore the Stoudite (Theodoros 15) and after the immediate successors of Theodoros 15; Anatolios is praised in verses written about Theodoros 15 and himself by a fellow countryman and monk in the Stoudite monastery, Dionysios (PBE II), which were wrongly included in the corpus of Theodoros 15's poetry: Theod. Stud., Epigrammata 124. See further S. G. Mercati, in REB 11 (1953), 224-232, and P. Speck, Helikon 3 (1963), 49-51.

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