Theodore Hyrtakenos, Latinized as Theodorus Hyrtacenus ( el, ), was a court official of the Byzantine Empire. He flourished in the time of the

Andronikos II Palaiologos , image = Andronikos II Palaiologos2.jpg , caption = Miniature from the manuscript of George Pachymeres' ''Historia'' , succession = Byzantine emperor , reign = 11 December 1282 –24 May 1328 , coronation = 8 Novembe ...

(r. 1282–1328), where he was the superintendent of the public teachers of rhetoric and ''belles lettres''. Ninety-three of his letters, a congratulatory address, and three of his funeral orations are extant. Their stilted rhetoric hinders their address, but they speak towards an extensive acquaintance with ancient poetry. Also extant are a panegyric on the Virgin Mary, a panegyric on Aninas Thaumaturgus, and a description of the garden of

Saint Anna According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come ...

in Nazareth. Smith, William, editor. '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', pg. 1053. (1870)

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