christodoros of coptos, a Christian poet in the time of Anastasius I (491-518) who was influenced by nonnos of panopolis (Cameron, p. 475). Between 491 and 518 he wrote a poem "On the Pupils of the Great Proclus," an epic on the Isaurian expedition (497-498) of Emperor Anastasius, poems on the history and antiquities of Constantinople and other places, an exposition on statues in the thermae of Zeuxippos in Constantinople, and epigrams.
Christodoros of Coptos
By Martin Krause
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Cameron, A. "Wandering Poets. A Literary Movement in Byzantine Egypt." Historia 14 (1965):470-509. Stupperich, R. "Das Statuenprogramm in den Zeuxippos-Thermen." Istambuler Mitteilung 32 (1982):210-35. MARTIN KRAUSE