Manes 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E/M VIII |
Dates | 733 (taq) / 733 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 4690 |
Religion | Iconoclast |
Locations | Kibyrrhaiotai (officeplace); Kibyrrhaiotai; Italy; Adriatic |
Titles | Strategos, Kibyrrhaiotai (office) |
Textual Sources | 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) |
In 733 Manes 1 was strategos of the Kibyrrhaiotai (Μάνην, τὸν στρατηγὸν τῶν Κιβυραιωτῶν) when the emperor Leo III (Leo 3) sent him at the head of a large fleet to Italy to put down opposition to the emperor's iconoclast policies; the fleet was wrecked in the Adriatic: Theoph. AM 6224.
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