Helladius (Greek: Έλλάδιος) was a Byzantine period grammarian, professor, and a priest of Zeus during the 4th and 5th centuries.

Helladius was a professor of some distinction in Alexandria. In 391, he was involved in a violent revolt centred at the Serapeum, where the pagan rebels tortured and killed captured Christians, with Helladius reportedly personally killing nine Christians.[1] After the suppression of the revolt and the destruction of the temple, Helladius fled to Constantinople,[2][3]

By the reign of Theodosius II (408–450 A.D.), he was back to actively teaching grammar.[3] Socrates of Constantinople in his youth was one of his pupils.[4] Helladius was granted comitiva ordinis primi by this emperor in 425 A.D., by virtue of which he became ranked among the ex vicarii.[5]

Helladius compiled a Greek lexicon entitled λεξικὸν κατὰ στοιχεῖου[7] or τῶν λέξεων συλλογή[8] according to Photius; elsewhere it is stated the lexicon bore the title λέξεως παντοίας χρῆσις κατα στοῖχειον.[9] Helladius was one of the important sources used by the Suda as well.[3][2][6]

Notes

  1. ^ Socrates Scholasticus, Hist. Eccl. 5.16.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Davids (1880), p. 891.
  3. ^ a b c Matthaios (2015), p. 268.
  4. ^ Socrates of Constantinople, Historia Ecclesiastica, v. 16.[2]
  5. ^ Codex Theodosianus VI, xxi.[2]
  6. ^ a b c d Smith (1870), p. 376.
  7. ^ Photonius, codex 145.[6]
  8. ^ Photonius, Bibl. 158, p. 100a. 38 ed. Bekker, cited by Smith,[6] Davids.[2]
  9. ^ Called this by Suda according to Smith,[6] but this too is given by Photonius, codex 165, according to Davids.[2]

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