Parthenios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E IX |
Dates | 816 (taq) / 818 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 5736 |
Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
Locations | Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople); Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence) |
Occupation | Monk |
Textual Sources | Theodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters) |
Parthenios 1 was a Stoudite monk; addressee of two letters from Theodore the Stoudite (Theodoros 15) written between 816 and 818; he had suffered during the iconoclast persecution: Theod. Stud., Ep. 171, pp. 292-293 (M/L 816); Ep. 350, pp. 486-487 (L 817/E 818) (both letters addressed Παρθενίῳ τέκνῳ). In 816 he was still a young man (μικρὸς ἐν ἡλικίᾳ): Theod. Stud., Ep. 171, p. 292, lines 3-4. He is addressed as υἱέ μου ποθητέ, Ep. 171, p. 292, line 4; and as τέκνον μου ποθητόν, Ep. 350, p. 486, line 2. He is included in a list of ten Stoudite monks all associated with Euthymios 15: Theod. Stud., Ep. 181, p. 303, line 6.
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