Diogenes 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VIII
Dates788 (taq) / 788 (ob.)
PmbZ No.1337
LocationsAnatolikoi (officeplace);
Apadna (Isauria);
Kopidnados (Isauria)
TitlesTourmarches, Anatolikoi (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)

Diogenes 1 was tourmarches of the Anatolikoi in September 788, when he was killed in the battle of Kopidnados; he is described as capable (Διογένες, ὁ τῶν ἀνατολικῶν τουρμαρ́χης ἱκανός): Theoph. AM 6281. For Kopidnados, cf. Ramsay, Historical Geography, p. 356 (perhaps Apadna, in Isauria).

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