George Lapithes
George Lapithes was a medieval Cypriot writer, scholar and landowner. Lapithes was a Greek Cypriot whose name is thought to have come from the town of Lapithos. He possessed a considerable amount of wealth due to his property ownership, which he used to enable his intellectual pursuits and pay for the release of Christian captives from the hands of the Turks.
Also recorded as Geōrgios Lapithēs · Georgios Lapithes
George Lapithes
- Born
- 1350 · Cyprus.
- Died
- 1360
- Nationality
- Byzantine Empire
- Occupation
- theologian · poet · scholar
- Languages
- medieval Greek
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George Lapithes was a medieval Cypriot writer, scholar and landowner. Lapithes was a Greek Cypriot whose name is thought to have come from the town of Lapithos. He possessed a considerable amount of wealth due to his property ownership, which he used to enable his intellectual pursuits and pay for the release of Christian captives from the hands of the Turks.
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Born at Cyprus in 1350, died in 1360.
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- 1.Talbot, Alice-Mary. The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. 1991. 9780195187922.
- 2.Grivaud, Gilles. Cyprus: Society and Culture 1191-1374. BRILL. 273. 2005.
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