Musokios
Musokios | |
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Title | Leader[B] of the Antes Prince of the Slavs[1] |
Musokios[A] or Mužok[2] was a 6th-century (Antes) monarch that ruled around 592, during Maurice's Balkan campaigns.
Menander Protector writes about Musokios in his works.
Raid on Ardagast
Priscus sent his lieutenant
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When lieutenant Alexander returned with the
The Gepid contacted Musokios and asked him to send a transport across the Paspirion river for the remaining army of Ardagast, Musokios assembled 150
On the following night, the boatmen were heavily intoxicated of wine and fell asleep. The Gepid gave the signal and the Slav colony was slaughtered, with the boats taken into Byzantine possession and filled with 300 soldiers heading towards Musukios.
A funeral ceremony of the brother of Musukios took place at the camp, with the people, as the boatsmen, being heavily intoxicated. Musukios was surprised and taken alive, a massacre lasted til the morning. Some Slavs escaped and returned to kill some of the army, as a result, Priscus hanged the negligent guards.
References
- ^ His name is transliterated as Musokios, Musukios or Musocius[3] from the works by Byzantine historian Menander Protector (l. mid-6th century).
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- ^ page 475
- ^ Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Über die Abkunft der Slawen nach Lorenz Surowiecki (1828), Buda, page 25
- ^ Daniel Ziemann, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, Vom Wandervolk zur Grossmacht:die Entstehung Bulgariens im frühen Mittelalter (7.-9. Jahrhundert) page 116
- ^ Jan Filip, International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Actes du VIIe Congrés International des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, Prague 21-27 août 1966, Institut d'Archéologie de l'Académie Tchécoslavaque des Sciences à Prague, 1970, page 1085
- ^ page 82
Sources
- J B Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene, Vol 2, p. 129, 130 and 172