Theodoros 168 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E VIII |
Dates | 710 (taq) / 710 (tpq) |
Variant Names | Theodorus |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Sicily (officeplace); Sicily; Ravenna |
Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Strategos, Sicily (primiexercitus) (office) |
Textual Sources | Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle) |
Theodoros 168 was a patricius and strategos of Sicily: Lib. Pont. 90. 4 (cited below), cf. 90. 2 (primiexercitus of Sicily; cited below). He was sent by the emperor Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) with a fleet to suppress a rebellion at Ravenna (between 708, when Constantine (Konstantinos 136) became bishop of Rome, and 710, when Konstantinos 136 left for Constantinople); he captured the city, arrested the archbishop (Felix 5), put the rebels in chains, confiscated their wealth and sent them and it to Constantinople: Lib. Pont. 90. 2 ("mittens quippe Iustinianus imperator Theodorum patricium et primi exercitus insulae Siciliae, cum classe Ravennam coepit"). In late 710 he was patricius and strategos in Sicily; he was a sick man but he met and welcomed the bishop of Rome Constantine (Konstantinos 136) there while the latter was en route to Constantinople, and made a rapid recovery: Lib. Pont. 90. 4 ("ubi" (i.e. in Sicily) "Theodorus patricius et stratigos, langore detentus, occurrens pontifici magna cum veneratione salutans atque suscipiens, medellam adeptus est celerem").
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