Theodosius the Deacon
Theodosius the Deacon or Theodosios Diakonos () was a Byzantine poet who lived in the 10th century. He is known only through his The Sack of Crete (, in ), 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. Sources 
 
  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  
 F. Cornelius (Cornaro), Creta sacra, Venice 177, pp. 269-327 
 Theodosius Diaconus, De Creta capta, ed. F. Jacobs, in Leonis diaconi Caloënsis Historia libri decem ed. C.B. Hase, Bonn, 1828, pp. 259-306 
 Pietro Francesco Foggini (ed. ), Historiae Byzantinae nova appendix opera Georgii Pisidae Theodosii Diaconi et Corippi Africani Grammatici complectens, Rome 1777, pp. 356-76 
 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. 10th-century Byzantine people
Byzantine poets