Antiochus Strategos
Also: Strategius, Antiochus of Mar Saba
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Monk of the Laura of Saint Sabas who told how the Persians took Jerusalem in 614.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 614 to 630Great Laura of Sabas (now Mar Saba, West Bank)monkyears not sure, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- The Capture of Jerusalem by the PersiansAn account of the sack of Jerusalem in 614 and the exile of Patriarch Zacharias, which survives in Georgian and Arabic.9,194 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- F. C. Conybeare, "Antiochus Strategos' Account of the Sack of Jerusalem in A.D. 614", English Historical Review 25 (1910), https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/antiochus_strategos_capture.htm
- Place of birth not known
- F. C. Conybeare, "Antiochus Strategos' Account of the Sack of Jerusalem in A.D. 614", English Historical Review 25 (1910), https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/antiochus_strategos_capture.htm
- Died not known
- F. C. Conybeare, "Antiochus Strategos' Account of the Sack of Jerusalem in A.D. 614", English Historical Review 25 (1910), https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/antiochus_strategos_capture.htm
After 630. - Place of death not known
- F. C. Conybeare, "Antiochus Strategos' Account of the Sack of Jerusalem in A.D. 614", English Historical Review 25 (1910), https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/antiochus_strategos_capture.htm
- Great Laura of Sabas, years not sure
- F. C. Conybeare, "Antiochus Strategos' Account of the Sack of Jerusalem in A.D. 614", English Historical Review 25 (1910), https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/antiochus_strategos_capture.htm
- Great Laura of Sabas, place probable
- F. C. Conybeare, "Antiochus Strategos' Account of the Sack of Jerusalem in A.D. 614", English Historical Review 25 (1910), https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/antiochus_strategos_capture.htm