Theophanes Chrysobalantes ( el, Θεοφάνης Χρυσοβαλάντης, ), erroneously known as Theophanes Nonnus or Nonnos in older scholarship,
was a
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
physician who wrote an outline of medicine dedicated to Emperor
Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (; 17 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe K ...
.
Identity
The extant manuscripts identify the author as Theophanes; the name ''Nonnus'' was apparently fabricated by the 16th-century copyist
Andreas Darmarios. The name Chrysobalantes was either an epithet or a variant of the documented Byzantine family name Chrysobalantites. Some copies of the manuscripts are anonymous or identify the author incorrectly as
Michael Psellos.
Theophanes was likely a physician himself.
Two works reference him as their author:
* An outline of past medical treatises with some original material by Chrysobalantes himself, known by the
Latin
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title ( grc, Ἐπιτομαὶ περὶ τῆς τῶν ἰατρικῶν θεωρημάτων συναγωγῆς)
* A treatise on diet, known as ()
In addition, an anonymous outline on medical cures (, ) is likely part of his work, on account of similarities in the preface with those of the other two works, as well as the thematical coherence the whole represents.
See also
*
Nonnus (disambiguation), for other people named Nonnus
References
Sources
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10th-century Byzantine physicians
10th-century Byzantine writers
Medical literature
Medical writers