CUNY Graduate Center – Friends of the Saints: John Haldon

Date/Time
Date(s) - 10 Mar 2017
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location
The CUNY Graduate Center

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Dr. John Haldon

Princeton University

Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History; Professor of History and Hellenic Studies;
Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies

 

Euchaïta and St. Theodore:  Some Recent Field Research

St. Theodore Tiro (‘the Recruit’) became one of the most important military saints in the Byzantine world and beyond.  He was reportedly martyred at Amaseia in Pontos under the emperors Galerius and Maximinus Daia.  His cult seems to have been well-established at nearby Euchaita by the end of the fourth century.  In this paper, Dr. Haldon will discuss Theodore’s cult and its evolution and survey the results of recent archaeological fieldwork at Euchaita itself, which throw important light on both the cult and on aspects of late Roman and middle Byzantine urbanism.