Athanasios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VIII |
Dates | 742 (taq) / 742 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 668 |
Locations | Constantinople |
Titles | Silentiarios (unclear) |
Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Athanasios 1 was a silentiarios (σιλεντιαρίου), sent to Constantinople in 742 by Artabasdos 1 with a letter for Theophanes 1; Athanasios 1 helped to persuade the people that the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) was dead and that the armies had proclaimed Artabasdos 1 as emperor; Artabasdos 1 was then proclaimed emperor at Constantinople: Theoph. AM 6233.
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