Kletorologion

The Klētorologion of Philotheos (Greek Κλητορολόγιον ) is the longest and most important Byzantine list of all offices and ranks in the imperial court ( Taktika ). It was in September 899 during the reign of Emperor Leo VI. ( Reign 886-912 ) from the otherwise unknown Prōtospatharios and Atriklinēs Philotheos published. As atriklinēs was Philotheos responsible for receiving me here the guests during the imperial banquets ( Klētoria ) and for the escort to their proper seat in accordance with the imperial hierarchy. In the preface of his work, he points out that he described as " precise exposé of the imperial seating arrangements, from the name and rank of each title, in accordance with older klētorologia " has created the work.

Sections

Philotheos work has come down to us only as an addendum in the last chapter ( 52-54 ) of a later work on the same subject, known as De Ceremoniis of Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus ( reign 913-959 ). It is divided into four sections:

• Section I is the introduction and gives a brief overview of all the offices and titles in the Byzantine Empire, which are subdivided into four categories: grades for " beard " (ie no eunuchs ), large state offices, small offices of the imperial bureaucracy ranks for eunuchs and important state offices, which were reserved for eunuchs.

• Section II and III contain the order in which the dignitaries are welcomed at the imperial banquet. Section II identifies the most important of them, which had the right to sit at the emperor's table, while Section III with middle and lower officials concerned as with the ambassadors of the patriarchates (Rome, Antioch and Jerusalem) as well as foreign dignitaries ( Arabs, Bulgarians and German ).

• Section IV is the longest section of text. It is aimed at the court atriklinēs and gives instructions on how the imperial banquets should be arranged, starting with the Christmas. It also contains two additional memoranda, one of the touches that should be at the banquets the various dignitaries are given a Byzantine emperor, the other on the content of the atriklinai.

• Another short section ( Chapter 54 of De Ceremoniis ) describes the church offices and their ranking and also includes Notitia Episcopatuum of pseudo - Epiphanius, a list of the Episcopal dioceses.