Ploutinos 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Variant NamesPlotinos
ReligionChristian
LocationsSicily (residence);
Peloponnesos (residence);
Sicily;
Peloponnesos
Textual SourcesSynaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, Propylaeum ad AASS Novembris, ed. H. Delehaye, (Brussels, 1902) (hagiography);
Vita Iosephi Hymnographi, by John The Deacon (BHG 946), PG 105. 940-76 (hagiography);
Vita Iosephi Hymnographi, by Theophanes (BHG 944), ed. A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Monumenta Graeca et Latina ad Historiam Photii Patriarchae Pertinentia, 2 vols. (St Petersburg, 1899, 1901) (hagiography)

Ploutinos 2 was the husband of Agathe 1, father of Joseph the Hymnographer (Ioseph 12); they lived in Sicily, in one of the famous cities there (the sources do not specify which); they were devout and pious Christians and gave away whatever they did not need to the poor: Theophanes, Vita Ioseph Hymnog. 2, Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 941D-944A, Synax. Eccl. Const., April 3, 581-584, 1. Ioseph 12 was not their only child, but nothing is known about the others: Theophanes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 2 (Ioseph 12 lef Sicily σὺν τοῖς τέκουσι καὶ ἀδελφοῖς). When Sicily was attacked by Arab forces, his parents took Ioseph 12 and his siblings (see above) and they went to live in the Peloponnesos with other refugees: Theophanes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 2, Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 944D-94 A. Ioseph 12 was probably born in the early ninth century.

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