Philon 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates816 (taq) / 817 (tpq)
PmbZ No.6182
ReligionChristian;
Iconophile;
Iconoclast
LocationsStoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople);
Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence)
OccupationMonk
Textual SourcesTheodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters)

Philon 2 a Stoudite monk; addressee, jointly with Titos 2, of two letters written by Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite) in 816; they belonged to the group of monks associated with Thaddaios 1, and were imprisoned together during the iconoclast persecution under Leo V (Leo 15): Theod. Stud., Ep. 129, pp. 246-247; 241, p. 374 (both addressed Τίτῳ καὶ Φίλωνι τέκνοις). In 816/817 they had both deserted the iconophile cause: Theod. Stud., Ep. 190, pp. 314-315.

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