Atriklines
The atriklines or artiklines (Greek: ἀτρικλίνης, ἀρτικλίνης) was a Byzantine court official responsible for organizing feasts and banquets in the imperial palace.[1][2] Along with maintaining order at imperial banquets,[3] he was tasked with ensuring that guests were received in the correct order of precedence according to their court rank and office.[1][2] The atriklines performed and fulfilled his duties by utilizing a list known as a kletorologion (κλητορολόγιον) containing the officials, dignitaries, and ministers who possessed the right to be entertained in the palace.[1] The roster itself would undergo alterations in order to account for the establishment of new offices, the elimination of old offices, and changes made to the guest order of precedence.[4] A prominent atriklines was a certain Philotheos, who in 899 held the imperial title of protospatharios and authored the only surviving example of a kletorologion.[1][2]
References
Sources
- Bury, John Bagnell (1911). The Imperial Administrative System of the Ninth Century - With a Revised Text of the Kletorologion of Philotheos. London: Oxford University Press.
- Neville, Leonora Alice (2004). Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52-183865-8.
- Tougher, Shaun (2008). The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-20-386620-7.