Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 12.14-26
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Context
Theophanes, born to noble parents in Constantinople, was raised in the
Palace under Constantine V (740-775 C.E.) He spent much of his career as a member and leader
of monastic communities around the Sea of Marmara, before his condemnation and exile to
Samothrace in 817 C.E. by Leo V the Armenian during the controversies over Iconoclasm. At
the request of George Syncellus, Theophanes wrote a continuation of his chronicle from
Diocletian down to Michael I Rhangabes (284-813 C.E.), in the usual dry style and format of
Byzantine chronography. In his entry for the year 304/5, he records martydoms under
Maximinus Daza, including Pamphilus of Caesarea, following the listing by Eusebius in his
Church History (see Related Texts).
Text
Τῷ δ’ αὐτῷ ἔτει Πέτρος, ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρείας, ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ ὑπάρχων
προστάγματι Μαξιμιανοῦ τοῦ Γαλλερίου καὶ Μαξιμίνου, τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, τὴν κεφαλὴν
ἀποτμηθεὶς ἐνδόξως ἐμαρτύρησεν· ὅστις τὸν Ἄρειον διάκονον ὄντα τῆς αὐτοῦ ἐκκλησίας
ἀκοινώνητον ἐποίησεν· ὅστις μετὰ ταῦτα κακοδόξου αἱρέσεως προστάτης γεγονὼς πολλοὺς τῆς
εὐσεβείας ἀπέστησεν. πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι ἐπὶ τούτων τῶν τυράννων τὸν ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ
μαρτυρικὸν στέφανον ἀνεδήσαντο, ὧν εἰσι Φιλέας ἐπίσκοπος Θμούεως τῆς Αἰγύπτου, Πηλεὺς
καὶ Νεῖλος ἐπίσκοποι τῆς Αἰγύπτου, Ἄνθιμος ἐπίσκοπος Νικομηδείας, Τυραννίων ἐπίσκοπος
Τύρου, Σιλουανὸς ἐπίσκοπος Ἐμέσης, καὶ Σιλουανὸς ἐπίσκοπος Γάζης, Λουκιανὸς πρεσβύτερος
Ἀντιοχείας, Ζηνόβιος πρεσβύτερος Σιδῶνος, Πάμφιλος πρεσβύτερος Καισαρείας, καὶ ἄλλοι ἀναρίθμητοι.
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Textual Note
Ed. de Boor 1883Translation
[A.M. 5797=304/5 C.E.] In the same year Peter, bishop of Alexandria,
who had been imprisoned by order of Maximianus Galerius and his son Maximinus, was
beheaded and underwent martyrdom gloriously. It was he who excommunicated Arius, who was
deacon of his church and who later, as leader of an erroneous heresy, caused many to
abandon their piety. And there were many others who in the service of Christ won the
martyrs’ crown at the hands of these tyrants. Among them are Phileas, bishop of Thmouis
in Egypt; Peleus and Nilus, bishops of Egypt; Anthimos, bishop of Nicomedia; Tyrannion,
bishop of Tyre; Silvanus, bishop of Emesa; and Silvanus, bishop of Gaza; Lucian,
presbyter of Antioch; Zenobius, presbyter of Sidon; Pamphilus, presbyter of Caesarea; and countless others.
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Translation Note
Trans. Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997Works Cited
- 1 Theophanes the Confessor, Theophanis Chronographia I, ed. Karl de Boor, 2 vols., Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1883), p: 12.14-26.
- 2 Theophanes the Confessor, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, A.D. 284-813, trans. Cyril Mango and Roger Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), p: 19.
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