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{{Short description|Cypriot monk}}
'''Alexander of Cyprus''' or '''Alexander Cyprius''', perhaps also known as '''Alexander the Monk''' or '''Alexander Monachus''', was apparently a 6th-century [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] monk active in the cloister near the sanctuary of [[St. Barnabas]] in [[Salaminia]] or [[Constantina]]
==Date and work==
Alexander seems to have lived any time between the mid-6th century and the 9th century. The Byzantinist [[Alexander Kazhdan]] argued that the traditional view of placing him in the mid-6th century was not necessarily valid.<ref>Kazhdan 1991: 60</ref> [[Cyril Mango]] and [[John W. Nesbitt]] maintain that he was a 6th-century author, according to his literary interests.<ref>Mango and Scott 1997: lxxvi-lxxvii; Nesbitt 2004: 475 with n. 1 with further references</ref>
Alexander composed a treatise called "On the Finding of the Cross" (''de inventatione sanctae crucis''), covering the [[history of Christianity]] from the emperor [[Tiberius]] to the discovery of the cross by [[Helena (empress)|Helena]], the mother of [[Constantine the Great]]. There is also a [[Georgian language|Georgian]] version of this work, with the earliest extant manuscript dated to the 9th or 10th century.<ref>Kazhdan 1991: ibid.</ref>
==Identification==
Nothing is known about the life of Alexander. Many scholars identify him with Alexander the Monk, the author of an [[enkomion]] of the apostle [[Barnabas]], but Kazhdan <ref>Kazhdan 1991: ibid.</ref> views this identification as arbitrary.
== References ==
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==Bibliography==
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* Works collected in [[Migne]]'s [[Patrologia Graeca]], vol. 87.3 coll. 4016-88
* ''[[Clavis Patrum Graecorum]] 7398-7400''
* S. Salaville, "Le moine Alexandre de Chypre," EO 15 (1912) 134-137 (discussion on his date)
* A. Kazhdan, "Alexander the Monk", The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, vol. I, p. 60 (Oxford 1991).
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