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Himerios (Gr****: Ὶμέριος), also Himerius, was a
Byzantine administrator and
admiral of the
early 10th century, best
known as the
commander of the Byzantine...
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attempted to
retake Crete several times.
Emperor Leo VI
chose the
patrician Himerios to lead a new
campaign against Crete in the 910s. The
Byzantine navy had...
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dismissed most of Leo's
advisers and appointees,
including the
admiral Himerios, the
patriarch Euthymios, and the
empress Zoe Karbonopsina, the mother...
- them.
Emperor Leo VI the Wise
replaced Argyros with the more
energetic Himerios, but Leo of
Tripoli forestalled the Byzantines,
turning back west and heading...
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pleas of
Himerios to join him only made
Andronikos more su****ious, and he
firmly refused to
board the former's flagship. In the event,
Himerios departed...
- John Kaminiates—while a large-scale
expedition to
recover Crete under Himerios in 911–912
failed disastrously. Nevertheless, the same
period also saw...
- Crete,
headed by the
admiral Himerios, but it was
forced to
leave the
island after a few months. On its
return journey,
Himerios'
fleet was destro**** in battle...
- years, 4
months and 2 days) A
relative of
writer Theophanes and
general Himerios,
originally a
concubine of Leo. She was
expelled after Leo's death, but...
- 95–96, nos. 102, 103, and 119; and
translations of Pausanias, Lucian, and
Himerios appear in A. Stewart, Gr**** Sculpture: An
Exploration (New
Haven 1990)...
- of the
chronicler Theophanes the
Confessor and a
niece of the
admiral Himerios. Zoe was a
mistress of Leo VI; they
married on 9
January 906,
after she...
