Manes 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M VIII
Dates733 (taq) / 733 (tpq)
PmbZ No.4690
ReligionIconoclast
LocationsKibyrrhaiotai (officeplace);
Kibyrrhaiotai;
Italy;
Adriatic
TitlesStrategos, Kibyrrhaiotai (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)

In 733 Manes 1 was strategos of the Kibyrrhaiotai (Μάνην, τὸν στρατηγὸν τῶν Κιβυραιωτῶν) when the emperor Leo III (Leo 3) sent him at the head of a large fleet to Italy to put down opposition to the emperor's iconoclast policies; the fleet was wrecked in the Adriatic: Theoph. AM 6224.

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