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Plutarch of Byzantium
Bishop of Byzantium
Installed89
Term ended105
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Died105
DenominationEarly Christianity

Plutarch (Greek: Πλούταρχος; died 105) served as Bishop of Byzantium for sixteen years (89–105 AD) in succession to Polycarp. When he died, he was buried in the church of Argyroupolis, as were his predecessors.

The persecution of Christians by Emperor Trajan took place in 98, during the bishopric of Plutarch.

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Plutarch of Byzantium

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Plutarch (Greek: Πλούταρχος; died 105) served as Bishop of Byzantium for sixteen years (89–105 AD) in succession to Polycarp. When he died, he was buried...

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Nymph

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The Children of Pelops Scholia on Euripides, Orestes, 4; on Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.144 Plutarch, Parallela minora 33 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Abrettēnē...

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Termerus

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Termerion lying between Myndus and Halicarnassus. Plutarch, Theseus 11.1 - 2 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Termera Scholia on Euripides, Rhesus 509 Suida...

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Sedecion of Byzantium

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Sedecion (Greek: Σεδεκίων; died 114) was a bishop of Byzantium. He succeeded Bishop Plutarch in 105, and served in that office for nine years until 114...

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Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty

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impossible cause. Byzantium under the Angeloi Byzantium under the Doukids Byzantium under the Heraclian Byzantium under the Isaurians Byzantium under the Justinian...

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De fluviis

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of rivers and mountains and those things which are found in them") or the Greek Περὶ ποταμῶν καὶ ὀρῶν ἐπωνυμίας, is a Greek text by Pseudo-Plutarch written...

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Sophia Xenophontos

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"Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium." Parekbolai (2014):...

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Bucephalus

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his breeding was that of the "best Thessalian strain". Plutarch says in 344 BC, at twelve or thirteen years of age, Alexander of Macedonia won the horse...

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Ares

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eponym of the Thracian tribe of Bithyae in Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Bithyai Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 7.5. Hyginus, Fabulae 173. eponym of the...

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AD 89

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Xiongnu. Polycarpus I, Greek bishop of Byzantium, dies after a 20-year reign and is succeeded by Plutarch. The Gospel of Matthew is published in Syria or...

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Posca

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lacked a word for posca, sources written in Greek, such as the Gospels and Plutarch, use the word οξος, oxos 'vinegar' in its place (translated as acetum in...

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Polycarpus I of Byzantium

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was a bishop of Byzantium. He succeeded Bishop Onesimus in 69 AD, and served in that office until his death in 89 AD. His last eight years of office (from...

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Byzantine Empire

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imperial seat's move from Rome to Byzantium, the adoption of state Christianity, and the predominance of Greek instead of Latin, modern historians continue...

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Aristonymus

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Aristophanes of Byzantium. Aristonymus, the name of two otherwise unknown writers mentioned by Plutarch, neither of whom appeared to be the same as any of the...

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Alexander the Great

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childhood. According to the ancient Greek biographer Plutarch, on the eve of the consummation of her marriage to Philip, Olympias dreamed that her womb...

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Megara

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north of Syracuse in Sicily. Megara then fought a war of independence with Corinth, and afterwards founded Chalcedon in 685 BC, as well as Byzantium (c....

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Maedi

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powers of the Odrysians on the east and of Illyrian tribes in the west, while Macedon was located to the south of Paeonia. According to Plutarch, the Maedi...

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Battle of the Eurymedon

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Additional details are provided by Plutarch's Parallel Lives biographies of Aristides and especially Cimon. Plutarch wrote six centuries after the events...

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Proselenos

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century CE) work of Stephanus of Byzantium. The term is also applied by the fourth century BCE philosopher Aristotle, as well as Eudoxos of Cnidus, a fourth...

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Libyssa

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Hannibal had died. Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.1.13. Plutarch, Flam. 20; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Λιβυσσα. Pliny. Naturalis Historia...

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Heracles

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of Byzantium s. v. Akelēs Solinus, De mirabilia mundi, 1. 15 Virgil, Aeneid, 7. 655 ff Plutarch, Life of Sertorius, 9. 4 Diodorus Siculus, Library of...

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Wars of the Delian League

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the Persian garrisons of Sestos and Byzantium, both in Thrace, in 479 and 478 BC respectively. After the capture of Byzantium, the Spartans elected not...

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Cecrops II

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Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Thespeia Apollodorus, 3.15.1 Suida, s.v. Maidens, Virgins Pausanias, 2.25.6; Plutarch, Theseus 32.1; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v...

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Erechtheus

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carried by a son of Erechtheus, but Plutarch conflated the two names in the myth of the begetting of Erechtheus. Athenians thought of themselves as Erechtheidai...

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Battle of Byzantium

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The Battle of Byzantium (Byzantion) took place during the wars of the successors of Alexander the Great (see Diadochi) between the generals Antigonus Monopthalmus...

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Alexandria Prophthasia

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Elder, Ammianus Marcellinus, Isidore of Charax, Stephanus of Byzantium and Pseudo-Plutarch. Alexander the Great, arrived in Drangiana in November 330 BC...

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