Theodoros 8 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 709 (taq) / 709 (tpq) |
| Locations | Tyana (Cappadocia) |
| Titles | Strategos (office) |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes 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) |
Theodoros 8 was known as Karteroukas (see below); probably in spring 709 he and Theophylaktos 4 were two strategoi sent by the emperor Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) against the Arabs besieging Tyana, with an army that apparently included both regular soldiers and local levies of farmers and peasants as extra help (δύο στρατηγούς Θεόδωρον τὸν Καρτεροῦκαν καὶ Θεοφύλακτον τὸν Σαλιβᾶν μετὰ στρατοῦ καὶ γεωργικοῦ λαοῦ χωρικοβοηθείας); the army was disunited and went into battle in disorder and was defeated with heavy losses of dead and wounded: Theoph. AM 6201, cf. Nic. Brev. 43-44 (describing the same events but not referring to the Roman commanders).
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