Tribonian

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Tribonian
Bas-relief plaque of Tribonian in the Chamber of the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol.
Bornc. 485
Side
(modern-day Side, Antalya, Turkey)
Died542 (aged 57)
Constantinople
(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Occupation(s)jurist and advisor
Years active529-542
Known forsupervised the revision of the legal code of the Byzantine Empire into the Code of Justinian.

Tribonian (

legal code of the Byzantine Empire.[1] He has been described as one of the wisest collaborators of Justinian.[2]

Tribonian was a

Codex Justinianus and the Digest. Justinian also appointed Tribonian to high offices in the imperial administration, such as magister officiorum and quaestor sacri palatii, but at the beginning of the Nika riots he was forced to dismiss him on charges made by his enemies.[3] Tribonian died in 542 of a disease, perhaps the plague.[4]

Biography

Tribonian was a Greek,[2][5][6] born in Cyme, in Pamphylia (modern Side),[7] around the year 485.[8] He may have been a pagan.[2][5][9] He was well educated and practiced law before the court of the praetorian prefect.[10] Justinian made Tribonian magister officiorum (Master of Offices), although it is not clear when,[11] and then appointed him quaestor sacri palatii in September 529.[12]

In 528, before he was appointed quaestor, Tribonian was named by Justinian as one of the commissioners charged with preparing the new imperial legal code, the

Codex repetitae praelectionis was published, entirely superseding the edition of 529, the text of which has been lost.[16]

In 532, Tribonian was removed as quaestor due to the charges of corruption made by his enemies during the Nika riots, but he continued to work on the codification.[17] He was restored to his post as quaestor in 535 and continued in that position until his death.[18] Tribonian continued to help draft new laws for Justinian; these new laws (Novellae Constitutiones) were later combined with the Codex Justinianus, the Digest and the Institutes to comprise the Corpus Juris Civilis.

Tribonian died in 542 of a disease, perhaps the

Institutes and the Second "Codex Iustinianus."[19]

References

  1. ^ Roman Jurisprudence Archived 2008-01-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-960-85091-0-8
    . ΤΡΙΒΩΝΙΑΝΟΣ : Ήταν ο σοφότερος από τους συνεργάτες του Ιουστινιανού . Ήταν ειδωλολάτρης Έλληνας από την Παμφυλία
  3. ^ Honoré, Tribonian (1978)
  4. ^ a b See Honoré, supra note 2 at 61-64 for a detailed sifting of the evidence.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-914744-58-0
    . Tribonian, a pagan of Greek origin, from Pamphilia.
  6. ISBN 978-1-009-27612-2
    . Tribonian, a Greek...
  7. ISBN 978-0-85773-630-7
    . Tribonian was born in Side, the ancient Pamphylian colony of Aeolian Cyme.
  8. ^ "We can only guess at the date of his birth....Tribonian attained the quaestorship in 529, so he was presumably born before 500, perhaps in the last fifteen years of the fifth century." Tony Honoré, Tribonian (1978), 41.
  9. ISBN 978-0-521-51751-5
    . ...the possibly pagan, but certainly classically minded Tribonian.
  10. ^ Honoré, 44.
  11. ^ Honoré, 45
  12. ^ Tony Honoré, "Tribonian" in The Oxford Classical Dictionary 1549 (Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth eds. 3rd rev. ed 2003).
  13. ^ Honoré, supra note 2 at 44-46.
  14. ^ Tony Honoré, "Justinian's Codification" in The Oxford Classical Dictionary 803, 804 (Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth eds. 3rd rev. ed 2003). For a lengthier discussion of the purpose of the second Commission, see Honoré, supra note 2 at 48-50.
  15. ^ Honoré, "Justinian's Codification, supra note 8.
  16. ^ Id.[clarification needed]
  17. ^ Honoré, supra note 2 at 48.
  18. ^ Honoré, supra note 5.
  19. ^ Honoré, supra note 8 at 69.
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