Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 52.7-10
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Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Παλαιστίνης

, and

Caesarea Palestinae

are directly attested at Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 52.7-10. 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 362/3, he depends on the account of Socrates of Constantinople for the case of the pagan Porphyrius of Tyre, who was attacked at Caesarea.

Πορφύριος δέ, ὁ καθ’ ἡμῶν λυττήσας, Τύριος μὲν ἦν τῷ γένει, Χριστιανὸς δὲ τὸ πρὶν ὁ ἄθλιος· τυφθεὶς δὲ ὑπὸ Χριστιανῶν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Παλαιστίνης κατ’ ὀργὴν μετῆλθεν εἰς τὸν ἑλληνισμόν, καὶ τότε γράψαι κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας ὁ κύων ἐτόλμησεν.

[Ed. de Boor 1883]

[A.M. 5855=362/3 C.E.] Porphyrius, the man who raged against us, a Tyrian by birth, a wretched fellow who had earlier been a Christian. He was beaten up by the Christians in Caesarea Palestinae and in anger converted to Hellenism, and then the dog dared to write an attack on the truth.

[Rev. Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997] ["Hellenism" here connotes paganism, or Greek polytheism.]

Works Cited

[...] 52.7-10
[...] 83

[Socrates Scholasticus, Church History 3.23

Theodorus Anagnostes 153 (62.7-10)]

[Palestine]

[Porphyrius]

[Christianity

Government and Law

Hellenism (paganism)]