Editing Photios I of Constantinople (section)

== Notes and references ==
=== Notes ===
{{Cnote|a|The exact dates of Photios's birth and death are not known. Most sources list circa 810 and others circa 820 as his year of birth. He died some time between 890 and 895 (probably 891 or 893).<ref>{{harvnb|Mango|1980|p=169}}; {{harvnb|Plexidas|2007|loc="Introduction", p. 15}}.</ref>}}

{{Cnote|b|The case of pseudo-Simeon's ''Chronicle'' is characteristic: the author argues that Photios was educated after an agreement he concluded with a Jewish magician who offered him knowledge and secular recognition, in case he renounced his faith.<ref>Symeon Metaphrastes (?). ''Chronicle'', [https://documentacatholicaomnia.eu/30_20_0950-1050-_Symeon_Metaphrastes.html PG 109, 732 BC]; {{harvnb|Plexidas|2007|loc="Introduction", p. 15}}.</ref>}}

{{Cnote|c|David Marshall Lang argues that "Photius [...] was only one of many Byzantine scholars of Armenian descent".<ref>{{harvnb|Lang|1988|p=54}}.</ref> [[Peter Charanis]] notes that "[[Patriarch John VII of Constantinople|John the Grammarian]], Photius, Caesar Bardas and [[Leo VI the Wise|Leo the Philosopher]] seem to have been the prime movers. All four were, at least in part, of Armenian descent [...] as for Photius, the fact is that his mother Irene was the sister of [[Arshavir]], the Arshavir who had married Calomaria the sister of Bardas and the empress Theodora."<ref>{{harvnb|Charanis|1963|pp=27–28}}.</ref> [[Nicholas Adontz]] stresses that "Arshavir, Photius' uncle, must not be confused with Arshavir, the brother of John the Grammarian".<ref>{{harvnb|Adontz|1950|p=66}}.</ref>}}

{{Cnote|d|Toby Bromige notes that "Shirinian identifies many influential Byzantines in the mid-ninth century, such as Photios [...] as Armenian in origin, but these claims have been challenged".{{sfn|Bromige|2023|p=22}} There is a tendency amongst certain Byzantinists to propose an "Armenian" ancestry for certain Byzantine individuals and/or families with an obscure heritage as a "convenient solution",{{sfn|Bryer|1980|p=165}} even if the evidence is flimsy, non-existent or completely fictional.{{sfn|Kaldellis|2019|p=155–195}}}}

{{Cnote|e|G. N. Wilson regards [[Leo the Mathematician]] as Photios's teacher, but [[Paul Lemerle]] notes that Leo was not one of the persons with whom Photios had a correspondence.<ref>{{harvnb|Lemerle|1986|p=159}}; {{harvnb|Plexidas|2007|loc="Introduction", p. 16}}.</ref>}}

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