Anonymus 632

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M IX
LocationsAphousia (Sea of Marmara);
Aphousia (Sea of Marmara) (officeplace)
TitlesArchon, Aphousia (Sea of Marmara) (office)
Textual SourcesVita Michaelis Syncelli (BHG 1296), ed. M. Cunningham, The Life of Michael Synkellos , Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations 1 (Belfast, 1991) (hagiography)

Anonymus 632 was the governor of the island of Aphousia (ὁ ἄρχων τῆς νήσου; ὁ ἀρχηγὸς τῆς νήσου), to which Theodoros 68 and Theophanes 6 were exiled during the persecution under Leo V (Leo 15); although ordered to treat the two harshly, to hasten their deaths, Anonymus 632 allowed them to live their normal ascetic lives and to engage in active correspondence in the iconophile cause: Vita Mich. Sync. 14. Theodoros 68 and Theophanes 6 are said to have arrived on the island in August of Indiction 7 (i.e. August 814, but this is not possible on grounds of chronology; the date must be a year or two later). They remained there until the reign of the emperor Theophilos 5 (829/841).

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