Troilus of Constantinople () was a
sophist
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from
Side
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in
Pamphylia
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of the late 4th and early 5th century. He taught in
Constantinople
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.
He wrote 7 books.
Suda, § tau.1080
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Bibliography
* Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', 2 (AD 395–527), 1980, p. 1128
References
Roman-era Sophists
4th-century births
5th-century deaths
5th-century Greek philosophers
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