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- Title
Sebeos' account of an Arab attack on Constantinople in 654.
- Authors
O'Sullivan, Shaun
- Abstract
The Armenian writer Sebeos records in detail a great Arab attack on the Byzantine capital in 654, which ended in disastrous failure. No parallel accounts are known, and Sebeos' report has not been seriously considered. Yet Sebeos, otherwise known to be a reliable author, teas writing only shortly after the supposed event. The event is plausible in its historical context. Allusions to it in several historical sources may he remnants of written records, parallel to Sebeos' account, which disappeared after the condemnation of Monotheletism in 680-1. Indirect evidence of the attack from several other Christian sources and, to a lesser degree, from the Islamic tradition also tends to confirm Sebeos' report.
- Subjects
ISTANBUL (Turkey); TURKEY; ARAB countries; ARABS -- History; CHRISTIANITY; MONOTHELITISM
- Publication
Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 2004, Vol 28, p67
- ISSN
0307-0131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/byz.2004.28.1.67