Philetos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII |
Dates | 788 (taq) / 788 (ob.) |
PmbZ No. | 6149 |
Locations | Strymon (deathplace); Strymon; Thrace; Thrace (officeplace) |
Titles | Strategos, Thrace (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) |
Philetos 1 was strategos of Thrace in 788; he left his camp near the Strymon unguarded and was surprised and killed with many of his troops by the Bulgars: Theoph. AM 6281 (Φιλητὸς δέ, ὁ τῆς Θρᾴκης στρατηγός).
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