Theodorus Philetas

Theodorus Philetas is a character H. P. Lovecraft created as the translator of Abdul Alhazred's Al Azif from Arabic into Greek, thus creating the first book called the Necronomicon. He appears in Lovecraft's mock-scholarly "History of the Necronomicon" (1938).
According to Lovecraft's fictional history, Theodorus was a resident of Constantinople who "secretly translated" the work in 1050 under the title Necronomicon. This translation "impelled certain experimenters to terrible attempts" over the next century, until it was suppressed and burnt by Patriarch Michael I. Though a print edition was published in Italy between 1500 and 1550, no copy of Theodorus' translation has been known to exist since one was burnt in Salem in 1692.
Joan C. Stanley, in Ex Libris Miskatonici, suggests that character's Greek name would be more accurately transliterated as Theodoros Philetos. She points out that in medieval Greek, his surname would indicate that he was considered a hereticEx Libris Miskatonici, by Joan C. Stanley, p. 49 (Necronomicon Press, 1993).--an allusion to the Biblical character of Philetus (2 Timothy 2:16-18), who denied the bodily resurrection, a stance associated with Gnosticism.Wikipedia, "Philetus (biblical figure)."
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