Theophanes of Mytilene

Theophanes of Mytilene was an intellectual and historian from the town of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos who lived in the middle of the first century BC. [cite journal|last=Gold|first=Barbara K.|date=Autumn 1985|title=Pompey and Theophanes of Mytilene|journal=The American Journal of Philology|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|volume=103|issue=3|pages=pp. 312-327] He was a friend of Pompey and wrote a book about his expedition to Asia. According to Plutarch Pompey granted freedoms to Mytilene for Theophanes' sake. [cite book|last=Yarrow|first=Liv Mariah|title=Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2006|pages=p.57|isbn=9780199277544]

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