Maximos 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E IX |
Dates | 817 (tpq) / 818 (taq) |
PmbZ No. | 4923 |
Religion | Christian; Iconoclast |
Locations | Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) |
Occupation | Monk |
Textual Sources | Theodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters) |
A Stoudite monk; Maximos 2 is named together with Leontios 29 and Klemens 1 in a letter of Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite), as monks who had deserted the cause of icon veneration: Theod. Stud., Ep. 302, pp. 444-445 (dateable after the winter of 817/818). One of the unnamed followers of Leontios 29; according to Theodoros 15 they should be forgiven if they repented: Theod. Stud., Ep. 326, pp. 467-468.
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