Editing Niketas Choniates (section)

==Life==

Nicetas Akominatos was born to wealthy parents around 1150 in [[Phrygia]] in the city of [[Chonae]] (near the modern Honaz in Turkey). Bishop [[Nicetas of Chonae]] baptized and named the infant; later he was called "Choniates" after his birthplace. When he was nine, his father dispatched him with his brother [[Michael Choniates|Michael]] to [[Constantinople]] to receive an education. Niketas' older brother greatly influenced him during the early stages of his life.

He initially secured a post in the civil service, and held important appointments under the [[Angelos]] emperors (among them that of [[Megas Logothetes|Grand Logothete]] or Chancellor) and was governor of the [[Theme (Byzantine district)|theme]] of [[Plovdiv, Bulgaria|Philippopolis]] at a critical period. After the [[sack of Constantinople]] during the [[Fourth Crusade]] in 1204, he fled to [[İznik|Nicaea]], where he settled at the court of the [[Empire of Nicaea|Nicaean emperor]] [[Theodore I Lascaris]], and devoted himself to literature. He died in 1217.

His theological work, ''Thesaurus Orthodoxae Fidei'', although extant in a complete form in manuscripts, has been published only in part. It is one of the chief authorities for the [[heresy|heresies]] and heretical writers of the 12th century.