Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 27.18-20
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Caesarea Maritima is indirectly attested at Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 27.18-20. This passage was written ca. ca. 810-814 C.E. possibly in Cyzicus. 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 324/5, he cites Constantine’s famous order of bibles from Eusebius and the Library at Caesarea.

Εὐσεβίῳ δὲ τῷ Παμφίλου βίβλους ἱερὰς κατασκευάσαι ὁ βασιλεὺς προσέταξε λόγῳ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως παρασχὼν αὐτῷ καὶ δημόσια χρήματα.

[Ed. de Boor 1883]

The emperor ordered Eusebius Pamphili to prepare copies of the Sacred Books for use in the churches of Constantinople, for which he supplied him with public money.

[Trans. Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997]

Works Cited

[...] 27.18-20
[...] 43

[Eusebius, Life of Constantine 4.36-37

Leo the Grammarian 88.22-89.1

Michael the Syrian I.327]

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