medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Theodore and Theophanes (d. 841 & 845) T and T were brothers, born
> in Kerak. They grew up in Jerusalem and both became monks at St.
> Sabas. They were the lucky ones chosen by the patriarch of Jerusalem
> to go tell the emperor to stop his iconoclast policies. The emperor
> was not amused: he had them flogged and sent to a cold,
> ill-provisioned island at the mouth of the Black Sea. They were
> released when Emperor Leo died, but soon scourged and banished again
> by a new iconoclast emperor. After two years they were brought to
> Constantinople, and when they still persisted in their stand, the
> emperor had 12 lines of specially-composed iambic verse carved onto
> their faces (a process that took two days). Then they were banished
> again. When iconoclasm ended, Theophanes became bishop of Nicaea.
> Both brothers are called "Graptoi"---"the written-on."
I am just trying to envision how this was done & if the accent marks were
included. Did they both get all 12 lines or were the lines split between
them?
DW
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