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Theodorus MELITENIOTA

52. MELITENIOTA, a native apparently of Melitene in Armenia, filled the offices of Sacellarius Magnus and Chief Teacher (διδάσκαλος τῶν διδασκάλων) in the great church at Constantinople towards the close of the twelfth century.

Works

Work on Astronomy

He was the author of a work on astronomy.

Editions

The introduction and first chapter were published by Ismael Bulloaldus, appended to his edition of Ptolemaeus, De judicandi Facultate et Animi Principatu, Paris, 1663, and reprinted by Fabricius (Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 401, &c.).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.