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Philo of Byzantium [a] ( Greek: Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος, Phílōn ho Byzántios, c. 280 BC – c. 220 BC ), also known as Philo Mechanicus ( Latin for "Philo the Engineer"), was a Greek engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC. Although he was from Byzantium he lived most of ...
Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faustus of Byzantium has received more than 43,663 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Faustus of Byzantium is the 148th most popular historian (up from 170th in 2019).
Theodora Porphyrogenita [a] ( Greek: Θεοδώρα Πορφυρογέννητη, romanized : Theodṓra Porphyrogénnētē; c. 980 – 31 August 1056) was Byzantine Empress from 21 April 1042 to her death on 31 August 1056, and sole ruler from 11 January 1055. She was the last sovereign of the Macedonian dynasty, that ruled the Byzantine ...
Nikephoros Ouranos ( Greek: Νικηφόρος Οὐρανός; fl. c. 980 – c. 1010), Latinized as Nicephorus Uranus, was a high-ranking Byzantine official and general during the reign of Emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025). One of the emperor's closest associates, he was active in Europe in the wars against the Bulgarians, scoring a major ...
The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025. University of California Press. p. 201. ISBN 9780520204966. Four emperors — Leo V, Basil I, Romanos I and John Tzimiskes — seem to have been Armenian, as well as the empress Theodora, Theophilos' wife...
Theophanes of Byzantium (Greek: Θεόφανης ὁ Βυζάντιος; fl. 6th century) was a Byzantine historian. He wrote, in ten books, the history of the Eastern Empire during the Persian war under Justin II , beginning from the second year of Justin (567), in which the truce made by Justinian I with Khosrau I was broken, and going down ...
Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople modern day Istanbul, Turkey. Feast. 13 August. Attributes. Imperial or Monastic Vestment. Irene of Hungary ( Greek: Είρήνη, born Piroska; died 13 August 1134) was a Byzantine empress by marriage to John II Komnenos. She is venerated as an Eastern Orthodox saint.
