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** Kassia, Byzantine poet and composer ( b. 810 )
* Theodosius the Deacon, a 10th-century Byzantine poet who wrote the poem " The Conquest of Crete "
John Tzetzes () ( c. 1110, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople ) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian, known to have lived at Constantinople during the 12th century.
The island has a castle ( the kastro ) that dates from the Venetian occupation ( 13th to 15th centuries ), a Byzantine monastery ( the Monastery of Saint George ), the grave of English poet Rupert Brooke at Tris Boukes harbor.
* Nicola Chetta ( 1741 – 1803 ), priest of the Byzantine rite, ethnographic, writer and poet.
Kallinikos Lapatis ( Patriarch of Constantinople ), the poet of the Greek rebellion Rigas Fereos and the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes Alisafes were students of the school amongst others.
Marlowe certainly knew the story as told by both Ovid and by the Byzantine poet Musæus Grammaticus ; Musaeus appears to have been his chief source.
* George Pisida ( 7th century ) Byzantine poet
Michael Glycas or Glykas (; 12th century ) was a Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer and poet.
The great modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy includes a reference to Irene Doukaina in his poem " A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses ", which refers to Doukaina " that viper Irini Doukaina " and that as the cause of the titular nobleman's exile, " may she be cursed ".

Byzantine and also
In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.
In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.
There also is no mention of Troy, which was not far from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire and militarily beyond the reach of the Vikings.
He had also profoundly altered the nature of the Byzantine government.
Andronikos II was also plagued by economic difficulties and during his reign the value of the Byzantine hyperpyron depreciated precipitously while the state treasury accumulated less than one seventh the revenue ( in nominal coins ) that it had done previously.
This could be either the normal military dress, with a tunic to about the knees, armour breastplate and pteruges, but also often the specific dress of the bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, with a long tunic and the loros, a long gold and jewelled pallium restricted to the Imperial family and their closest guards.
The regnal year of the emperor was also used to identify years, especially in the Byzantine Empire after 537 when Justinian required its use.
However other alloys such as low tin bronze were also used and they vary depending on local cultural attitudes, the purpose of the metal and access to zinc, especially between the Islamic and Byzantine world.
A 6th-century Byzantine scholar, Zosimus also described the total massacre of Decius ' troops and the fall of the pagan emperor:
There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west and a Byzantine settlement a few hundred meters to the east.
It is also situated at the nucleus of Coptic Orthodox community, which separated from the Roman and Byzantine church in the late 4th century.
Byzantine period emperors also used the Greek word " autokrator ", meaning " one who rules himself ," or " monarch ," which was traditionally used by Greek writers to translate the Latin dictator.
The Byzantine empire also produced three women who effectively governed the state: the Empress Irene and the Empresses Zoe and Theodora.
Incidentally by being king of Spain, he was also Roman ( Byzantine ) emperor in pretence through Andreas Palaiologos.
In the Middle East, Orthodox Christians have also been often referred as Roman ( or Rum ) Orthodox, because of their historical connection with the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine ) Empire as said in Chapter 30 ( Sura Rum ) of the Quran.
That was probably the reason why Ravenna was chosen not only as the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy, but also for the seat of the Byzantine exarchs as well.
Late Roman Empire ( Christian ) 1st-2nd century frescoes were found in catacombs beneath Rome and Byzantine Icons were also found in Cyprus, Crete, Ephesus, Cappadocia and Antioch.
* Medieval Greek, also known as Byzantine Greek: the continuation of Koine Greek during Byzantine Greece, up to the demise of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century.
There are also many ancient and Byzantine dishes which are no longer consumed: porridge as the main staple, fish sauce, and salt water mixed into wine.
The Byzantines also used the weapon to devastating effect against the various Rus ' raids to the Bosporus, especially those of 941 and 1043, as well as during the Bulgarian war of 970 – 971, when the fire-carrying Byzantine ships blockaded the Danube.
The Byzantine military manuals also mention that jars ( kytrai or tzykalia ) filled with Greek fire and caltrops wrapped with tow and soaked in the substance were thrown by catapults, while pivoting cranes ( gerania ) were employed to pour it upon enemy ships.
The cheirosiphōnes especially were prescribed for use at land and in sieges, both against siege machines and against defenders on the walls, by several 10th-century military authors, and their use is depicted in the Poliorcetica of Hero of Byzantium. The Byzantine dromons usually had a siphōn installed on their prow under the forecastle, but additional devices could also on occasion be placed elsewhere on the ship.
It was only in the Comnenian period ( 1081 – 1185 ) that the cult of the icon became widespread in the Byzantine world, partly on account of the dearth of richer materials ( such as mosaics, ivory, and enamels ), but also because an iconostasis a special screen for icons was introduced then in ecclesiastical practice.

Byzantine and wrote
According to the sixth century Byzantine scholar Zosimus, " Honorius wrote letters to the cities in Britain, bidding them to guard themselves.
For his part, commentator Alexander Kiossev, wrote in " Understanding the Balkans: " The hero of one nation might be the villain of its neighbour (...) The Byzantine emperor Basil the Murderer ( sic ) of Bulgarians, a crucial figure in the Greek pantheon of heroes, is no less important as a subject of hatred for our national mythology ".
* c. 1275 – c. 1328 Joannes Zacharias Actuarius a Byzantine physician wrote the last great compendium of Byzantine medicine
In a 1951 letter, Tolkien himself wrote about " the Byzantine City of Minas Tirith.
In the 6th century, the Byzantine emperor Maurice I wrote the Strategikon, a manual of war that codified a number of military reforms of the time.
During his service in the Byzantine Empire, Harald wrote a love poem addressed to Elisabeth, citing his many heroic deeds and complaining that " a golden-haired maiden of Gard does not like me ".
In 425 CE, the Jews of the Galilee wrote to Byzantine empress Aelia Eudocia seeking permission to pray by the ruins of the Temple.
According to Athenaeus, he was small, thin and surprisingly strong The Byzantine encyclopaedia Suda, recorded that he was expelled from Ephesus by the tyrants Athenagoras and Comas, then settled in Clazomenae, and that he wrote verses satirising Bupalis and Athenis because they made insulting likenesses of him.
According to sixth century Byzantine emperor Mauricius's Strategikon wrote of the Slavs:
He also wrote biographies of Pope Alexander VI and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as works on Byzantine history and medieval Athens, and translated Italian authors into German, among them Giovanni Melis.
David Watkin also wrote of a blend of Russian and Byzantine roots, calling the cathedral " the climax " of Russian vernacular wooden architecture.
He wrote in direct response to the Byzantine iconoclasm that began in the eighth century by the Byzantine emperor Leo III and continued by his successor Constantine V. St. John maintains that depicting the invisible God is indeed wrong, but he argues that the incarnation, where " the Word became flesh " ( John 1: 14 ), indicates that the invisible God became visible, and as a result it is permissible to depict Jesus Christ.
Byzantine traveller Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote of East Syrian Christians he met in India and Sri Lanka in the 6th century.
The Byzantine historian from 13th century Theodor Scutariota named Kaloyan " the Bulgarian Ioan " or " Bulgarian basileus " and wrote about " Bulgarians ", " Bulgarian land ", " Bulgarian matters "; also he defined Ivan Asen I as " tsar of the Bulgarians ".
The Megali Idea implied the goal of reviving the Byzantine Empire by establishing a Greek state, which would be, as ancient geographer Strabo wrote, a Greek world encompassing mostly the former Byzantine lands from the Ionian Sea to the west, to Asia Minor and the Black Sea to the east, and from Thrace, Macedonia and Epirus to the north, to Crete and Cyprus to the south.
" He also wrote ( in his Letters ) accounts of how the constant wars between the Byzantine Empire and the Pechenegs, Magyars and Normans had destroyed most of the food of the land and caused many people to flee to the forests from the towns.
) He was in favour with Byzantine Emperor Justinian II, who informed him that he had recovered the Acts of the Third Council of Constantinople, by which, the Emperor wrote, it was his intention to abide.
In a later letter to the Byzantine Emperor, Henry probably recalled these experiences when he wrote of the Welsh:
In his historical essay of 1874, On the Byzantines, he wrote that he wanted to restore the reputation of the Byzantine Empire.
He wrote for it, as before, numerous articles ( on Byzantine history, Eastern issues and Greek political life ), novels ( a compendium in French and Greek came out in 1887 ) and even travel guides.

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