Michael Toxaras (Greek: Μιχαήλ Τοξαρᾶς) was a Byzantine diplomat.
Toxaras is mentioned for the first time as a member of an embassy sent to the Abbasid court in Baghdad in June 917,[1] and recorded in the Kitab al-'Uyun.[2] The embassy was led by John Rhadenos, accompanied by Toxaras, who was already over 70 years old at the time, and twenty attendants.[1] The embassy arrived in Baghdad on 25 June and was received by the Caliph al-Muqtadir at the Taj Palace on 17 July, and a truce and prisoner exchange were agreed. Along with the eunuch general Mu'nis al-Muzaffar, the two ambassadors went to the Lamos River, the customary site of prisoner exchanges, where the exchange took place in September/October.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c PmbZ, Michael Toxaras (#25167).
- ^ The text was translated by Guy Le Strange in "A Greek Embassy to Baghdād in 917 A.D.", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 28 (1897), pp. 35–45.
Sources edit
- Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Pratsch, Thomas; Zielke, Beate (2013). Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Nach Vorarbeiten F. Winkelmanns erstellt (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.