Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 34.27-31
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Καισαρείας

, and

Caesarea

are directly attested at Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 34.27-31. 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 336/7, he records the death of Eusebius of Caesarea and the elevation of Acacius to the episcopal throne.

εὐθὺς δὲ μετὰ τὸν μέγαν Κωνσταντῖνον ἀπέθανεν Ἀκάκιον μαθητὴν καὶ διάδοχον τοῦ θρόνου Καισαρείας ἐάσας, ἐλλόγιμον μὲν ἄνδρα, τὸν καὶ τὰ σύμμικτα συγγραψάμενον, τοῖς δὲ Ἀρειανοῖς λίαν συγκείμενον, δηλονότι τῇ πρὸς τὸν διδάσκαλον ὁμοφροσύνῃ.

[Ed. de Boor 1883]

[A.M. 5829=336/7 C.E.] (Eusebius) died right after Constantine the Great, leaving his pupil Acacius as successor to his throne at Caesarea. Acacius was a distinguished man, and the author of the Miscellany, but was closely associated with the Arians, and was clearly of one mind with his teacher.

[Rev. Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997]

Works Cited

[...] 34.27-31
[...] 56

[Socrates Scholasticus, Church History 3.2

Theodorus Anagnostes 55 (28.30-32)]

[Acacius of Caesarea

Constantine I, emperor

Eusebius]

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