Theodosius the Deacon

Theodosius the Deacon or Theodosios Diakonos (Θεοδόσιος ο Διάκονος) was a Byzantine poet who lived in the 10th century. He is known only through his The Sack of Crete (Ἅλωσις τῆς Κρήτης, in De Creta capta), an epic poem in 1039 twelve-syllable lines, written in 962/963 to celebrate the recapture of the island of Crete from the Arabs in 961 by Nikephoros Phokas.