Skleros 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Melitene (Armenia) (officeplace); Melitene (Armenia) |
| Textual Sources | Scylitzes, Ioannes, Synopsis Historiarum, ed. J. Thurn (Berlin, 1973) (history); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history) |
Skleros 2 was described as a co-ruler (τοῦ συνάρχοντος αὐτοῦ) with the emir of Melitene, Amr 2, with whom he fought a civil war, which for a time interrupted Amr 2's attacks on Byzantine territory: Theoph. Cont. IV 16 (pp. 166-167) (τοῦ Σκληροῦ - οὕτως ἐλέγετο), Scyl., p. 93 (ὁ τοῦ Σκληροῦ οὗτος ἐλέγετο). Presumably he was an Arab, in spite of his name as given in the Greek sources.
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