Theodosius the Deacon explained

Theodosius the Deacon or Theodosios Diakonos (el|Θεοδόσιος ο Διάκονος) was a Byzantine poet who lived in the 10th century. He is known only through his The Capture of Crete (el|{{lang|grc|Ἅλωσις τῆς Κρήτης, in la|De Creta capta), an epic poem in 1039 twelve-syllable lines, written in 962/963 to celebrate the recapture of the island of Crete from the Arabs in 961 by Nikephoros Phokas.

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• • Nicolaos Panayiotakis: Θεοδόσιος ο Διάκονος και το ποίημα αυτού "Άλωσις της Κρήτης". Ηράκλειο 1960.
• Theodosii Diaconi De Creta capta. Edidit Hugo Criscuolo. Teubner, Leipzig 1979.
• Andreas Külzer: Theodosios Diakonos, Autor (Mitte/Ende 10. Jh.)., Lexikon des Mittelalters, Bd. 8, 1997, S. 643.
• Beate Zielke: Theodosius the Deacon, Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. General Editor David Thomas. Brill Online, 2014 https://books.google.com/books?id=G-R5DwAAQBAJ&dq=Theodosios+Diakonos%2C+Autor&pg=PA351
• F. Cornelius (Cornaro), Creta sacra, Venice 177, pp. 269-327 https://archive.org/details/cretasacrasivede01corn/page/268/mode/2up
• Theodosius Diaconus, De Creta capta, ed. F. Jacobs, in Leonis diaconi Caloënsis Historia libri decem ed. C.B. Hase, Bonn, 1828, pp. 259-306 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GCMAAAAAYAAJ/page/n365/mode/2up
• Pietro Francesco Foggini (ed.), Historiae Byzantinae nova appendix opera Georgii Pisidae Theodosii Diaconi et Corippi Africani Grammatici complectens, Rome 1777, pp. 356-76 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8D_zE29e_AYC/page/n415/mode/2up
• Andriollo, Luisa. (2011). Il De Creta capta di Teodosio Diacono fra epos storico ed encomio imperiale. Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici. 47. p. 31–56. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303859539_Il_De_Creta_capta_di_Teodosio_Diacono_fra_epos_storico_ed_encomio_imperiale