Athanasios 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII
Dates743 (taq) / 743 (tpq)
PmbZ No.668
ReligionIconophile
LocationsConstantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople (residence);
Constantinople
OccupationSecretary
TitlesAsekretis (office)
Textual SourcesTheophanes 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 2 was an asekretis (ἀσηκρήτην), at Constantinople in late 743, he served under Artabasdos 1; he and his domestikos Artabasdos 2 were sent by sea to fetch fresh provisions when supplies began to run short during the siege of the city by Constantine V (Konstantinos 7); they were captured by the fleet of Konstantinos 7, taken to him and blinded: Theoph. AM 6235.

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