Leontios 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VII/E VIII |
Dates | 695 (taq) / 705 (ob.) |
PmbZ No. | 4547 |
Variant Names | Leontius; Leo; L'wntyws; Leontius (emperor) |
Religion | Christian |
Ethnicity | Isaurian |
Locations | Constantinople (officeplace); Hellas (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Anatolikoi; Anatolikoi (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Dalmatos (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence); Isauria; Armenia; Hellas; Constantinople; Dalmatos (Monastery of, Constantinople); Isauria (birthplace) |
Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Augustus (office); Emperor (office); Strategos, Anatolikoi (office); Strategos, Hellas (office) |
Textual Sources | Bar Hebraeus, Chronographia, tr. E. A. W. Budge, The Chronography of Abu 'l-Faraj (London, 1932; repr. Amsterdam, 1976) (history); Chronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle); Chronicon Anonymum ad annum 819 pertinens, ed. Aphram Barsaum (CSCO 81, 1920), trans. J.-B. Chabot, CSCO 109, Scriptores Syri 56 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle); Chronicon ad annum Domini 846 pertinens, ed. E. W. Brooks, tr. J.-B. Chabot, CSCO 3-4 (Louvain, 1904); also tr. E. W. Brooks, "A Syriac Chronicle of the Year 846", Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländ (chronicle); Chronique de Denys de Tell-Mahré, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot (Paris, 1895); tr. A. Palmer, The Seventh Century in West-Syrian Chronicles (Liverpool, 1993), pp. 54-65 (chronicle); Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. G. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967) (history); Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle); Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history); Paulus Diaconus, Historia Gentis Langobardorum, ed. L. Bethmann and G. Waitz, MGH, Scr. Rer. Lang., pp. 12-187; also in MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 48, pp. 49-242 (history); Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Leontios 2 was a native of Isauria: Nic. Brev. de Boor 37, Mango 40 (see below). Probably identical with Leontios 1. He was a patrikios in 695: Nic. Brev. de Boor 37-38, Mango 40 (cited below), Theoph. AM 6187 (cited below), Chron. 1234, §151 (p. 297) (
(Publishable link for this person: )