User:Ichthyovenator/Imperial nicknames

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44170668 p. 12:

"Cedrenus further equips Constantine with a neck so thick as to provoke the nickname Trachelas, an early and overlooked (") example of the Byzantine habit of fastening nicknames on their rulers, a habit that must on occasion have influenced literary descriptions."

p. 14:

u sù/jtïjxouç) ; we may remember that he was fit enough to hunt. Moreover, John does not here call Theodosius fuxpóç but véoç (31). When an emperor is designated as ¿«xpóç, it is to mark him off from a senior partner. John of Antioch makes a similar distinction between the two Valentinians (fr. 1 97). Likewise,

p. 16: Anastasius I, Dikoros

p. 15:

Leo I became "the Great" after the coronation of his grandson Leo II, who promptly emerges as "the Small"

p. 17:

s was Theodore Lascaris. According to George Acropolites (p. 34, Bonn), he was [~etepophthalmos], George Acropolites (p. 34, Bonn), he was et epcxpQalßog. H (238) interprets this as "probably indicating that one of them did not focus properly". However, the epithet in late Greek regularly denotes eyes of different colours (42

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10466590/ - talk about Zoe Karbonopsina here (nicknames not only applied to emperors)

What is said about nicknames in the article on Constantine XI

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(add all the geographical names)

Pre-Anastasius emperors;


 * Constantine I – "the Great", Trachelas (in reference to his neck)
 * Julian – "the Apostate", Paravates ("the Violator")
 * Valentinian I – "the Great"
 * Theodosius I – "the Great"
 * Theodosius II – "the Younger", "the Calligrapher"
 * Leo I – "the Great"
 * Leo II – "the Small"
 * Zeno – "the Barbarian"