Английская Википедия:Gregory Antiochos
Шаблон:Short description Gregory Antiochos (Шаблон:Lang-gr) was a 12th-century Byzantine official and author.
Life and career
Gregory Antiochos was born in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, some time around 1125.Шаблон:Sfn He hailed from an obscure family, but his father, whose name is unknown was sufficiently to found a small female convent at the Forum Bovis.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Antiochos was apparently an only child,Шаблон:Sfn and received an excellent education under Nicholas Kataphloron (whose funeral oration he held in 1160), Nicholas Hagiotheodorites, and Eustathius of Thessalonica.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Closely tied to the capital's intellectual circles, already before 1159 he abandoned a literary career in favour of entering the civil service, soon becoming a member of the central imperial bureaucracy.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Before 1175 Antiochos was judge of the velon, and was sufficiently prominent to hold the funeral oration of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (Шаблон:Reign) on 22 January 1181.Шаблон:Sfn His career under the subsequent regency and the regime of Andronikos I Komnenos (Шаблон:Reign) is unknown,Шаблон:Sfn but modern scholarship considers it plausible that he supported Andronikos, and was forced to resign under Isaac II Angelos (Шаблон:Reign).Шаблон:Sfn Antiochos only reappears in Шаблон:Circa as megas droungarios tes vigles, with the rank of protonobelissimohypertatos.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn His subsequent fate, and the date of his death, are unknown.Шаблон:Sfn He had numerous children, of whom the oldest became a monk.Шаблон:Sfn
Works
Antiochos left a varied corpus of letters, speeches, eulogies and epitaphs, which are an important source for contemporary Byzantine history.Шаблон:Sfn In his work, he appears "a defender not only of imperial omnipotence, but also of the senate; he favored 'democratic' phraseology but stood aloof from military commanders".Шаблон:Sfn One of his chief influences was his teacher, Eustathius of Thessalonica.Шаблон:Sfn In his works, he "gives life to books and fruits, and endows animals with reason".Шаблон:Sfn
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