Euthymios Tornikes or Tornikios ( el, Εὐθύμιος Τορνίκης/Τορνίκιος; ) was a

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ecclesiastical official and writer. Euthymios was the son of the '' logothetes tou dromou'' Demetrios Tornikios, and a member of the Tornikios family, of princely

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origin that entered

service in the mid-10th century. He is first mentioned as a

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in 1181, and died in the

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sometime after 1222. He is best known for his rhetorical speeches, of which those preserved date chiefly to the period 1200–05, such as his

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on the failure of the coup of John Komnenos the Fat, or monodies on the death of his father and of his close friend and relative, the metropolitan bishop of

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Euthymios Malakes Euthymios Malakes ( el, Εὐθύμιος Μαλάκης, ca. 1115 – before 1204) was a Byzantine Empire, Byzantine bishop and writer, closely connected to the intellectual court circles of Constantinople. He was born ca. 1115 at Thebes, Greece, ...

. According to Alexander Kazhdan, his "rhetorical works are very conventional", with only the monody on the death of his father displaying a personal tone, "describing both family characteristics and, tenderly, Demetrios's death".

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