Markos 6 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L IX |
Dates | 859 (tpq) / 886 (taq) |
PmbZ No. | 4840 |
Religion | Christian |
Ethnicity | Sicilian |
Occupation | Monk |
Textual Sources | Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters) |
Markos 6, called the Sicilian, was a monk and was the addressee of a letter from the patriarch Photius (Photios 1), of uncertain date (so between 859 and 886); he is described as a native of the West (σὺ τὸ γένος ἕλκων ἐξ ἑσπέρας): Photius, Ep. 85 (I 125 Laourdas-Westerink) (addressed Μάρκῳ Σικελῷ μονάζοντι).
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