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Headword:
*)afousi/a
Adler number: alpha,4640
Translated headword: Aphousia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An island, on which were exiled the noble
Theophanes, the poet, and his brother Theodore the Branded, both confessors.
*)afousi/a: nh=so/s tis, e)n h(=| u(pero/rioi e)ge/nonto o( ku/rios *qeofa/nhs, o( poihth\s, kai\ o( a)delfo\s au)tou= *qeo/dwros o( *grapto\s, a)mfo/teroi o(mologhtai/.
Notes:
Champions of icon-veneration, 8th-9th cent. AD: Catholic Encyclopedia entry at web address 1.
The island is mentioned only here and by
Theophanes himself (
Theophanes Confessor,
Chronography p.496 de Boor). It is conceivably an error for, or variant of, the Elaphusa island near Corcyra/Corfu (NW Greece), mentioned in
Pliny,
Natural History 4.53; cf. also
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Brettia island in the Adriatic, called by the Greeks Elaphoussa. However, much more probably it is present-day Avsa in the SW Propontis, south of Prokonnesos (
pi 2478); Barrington Atlas map 52 grid A3, as Ophiussa there.
Web address 1
Keywords: art history; Christianity; definition; geography; history; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@00:31:36.
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