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    Nikephoros Basilakes (Greek: Νικηφόρος Βασιλάκης), frequently encountered simply as Basilakios (Βασιλάκιος), Latinized as Nicephorus Basilacius, was a...
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    Constantinople. As emperor, Nikephoros faced numerous revolts, including those of Nikephoros Bryennios, Nikephoros Basilakes, and Constantine Doukas, as...
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  • family (completed in 1098–1113), the Basilakes intermarried with the Dabetenos and Pakourianos families. The Basilakes were also reportedly of high rank...
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  • VII Doukas Nikephoros Basilakes, Byzantine usurper against Nikephoros III in 1078/1079 Nikephoros Bryennios (ethnarch), father of Nikephoros Bryennios...
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    (whose son or grandson later married Alexios' daughter Anna) and Nikephoros Basilakes, the first at the Battle of Kalavrye and the latter in a surprise...
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  • Gaza) and Byzantine times (Theodore the Studite; Michael Psellos; Nikephoros Basilakes, c. 1115–shortly after 1182; Theodoros Prodromos; the cento "Christus...
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    ancient city. In the 1070s, two of its governors, Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder and Nikephoros Basilakes, led unsuccessful rebellions trying to seize the...
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    western Balkan provinces. Two successive governors, Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder and Nikephoros Basilakes, used this post as a launchpad for their imperial...
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    Doukas. 1078: Revolt of Nikephoros Basilakes against Nikephoros III. 1080–1081: Revolt of Nikephoros Melissenos against Nikephoros III. 1081: Revolt and...
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  • throne, but was handed over by the supporters of Nikephoros III, who banished him. Nikephoros Basilakes (1078) – the doux of Dyrrhachium, he proclaimed...
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  • of Alania. During his reign, Nikephoros was preoccupied with the rebellions of Bryennios, Nikephoros Basilakes, Nikephoros Melissenos, and the Komnenoi...
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    Doukas. 1078: Revolt of Nikephoros Basilakes against Nikephoros III. 1080–1081: Revolt of Nikephoros Melissenos against Nikephoros III. 1081: Revolt and...
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    to the latter, as demonstrated by the fact that military leaders like Nikephoros Phokas and John Tzimiskes were promoted from the generalship of the Anatolics...
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    all free-born men of the Empire. Later Byzantine authors such as Nikephoros Basilakes, Michael Attaleiates, Theodore Prodromos, Patriarch Germanus II,...
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  • in a rebellion in 1078, is undisputed. That rebellion was led by Nikephoros Basilakes, doux of Dyrrhachium. Some authors (like Alain Ducellier, 1968) believe...
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    Komnenos, who had recently suppressed the revolts of Nikephoros Bryennios and Nikephoros Basilakes, against him, but he refused. In February 1081, Melissenos's...
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  • and career are mostly known from an encomium by the rhetorician Nikephoros Basilakes. He received a thorough education and training in military exercises...
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  • him in Germany). Cazzaniga 1939b contains emendations to texts by Nikephoros Basilakes (XI/XII cen.). Cazzaniga 1968c. Cazzaniga 1933; Cazzaniga 1934, Cazzaniga...
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  •  228–229. Basilaces, Nicephorus (2016). The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: Progymnasmata from Twelfth-century Byzantium. Translated by Jeffrey...
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  • Nikephoros Basilakes Nikephoros Bryennios (ethnarch) Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger Nikephoros Choumnos Nikephoros Chrysoberges...
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  • 1093/crj/cls011 Xenophontos, Sophia. "Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century...
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    Empire's leading generals, Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder, the doux of Dyrrhachium in the western Balkans, and Nikephoros Botaneiates, the strategos of...
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    to combat the revolts of Nikephoros Bryennios and Nikephoros Basilakes. In 1081, he deposed Nikephoros III and became emperor, ruling until his death in...
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  • P. Hauptmann (Göttingen, 1982), 240-244 'Zu den Ethopoiien des Nikephoros Basilakes', in Eikon und Logos: Beiträge zur Erforschung byzantinischer Kulturtraditionen...
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    Rewriting of Orosius Old English 43 The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes Byzantine Greek 42 Old English Psalms Old English 41 On Plato's Timaeus:...
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  • controversy, siding with the rhetoricians Michael of Thessalonica and Nikephoros Basilakes, who strongly distinguished between the persons of the Holy Trinity...
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    Important Byzantine figures from this period include Michael Psellus, Nikephoros Basilakes, Gregory Pardos of Corinth, and Euthymios Zigabenos. This period...
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  • under Alexios Komnenos, against another rebel general, Nikephoros Basilakes, capturing Basilakes' brother in the battle that ended the uprising. In 1080...
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    Armenian general Basilakes and some cavalry, as Romanos did not believe this was Alp Arslan's full army. The cavalry was routed, and Basilakes was taken prisoner...
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    a plot against his throne and life by his sister Anna and her husband Nikephoros Bryennios (who betrayed the plot), John II tried to give his sister's...
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