Adamantius

Adamantius is known here only as the recipient of four letters preserved in the correspondence of Libanius (the great pagan rhetor of Antioch, active c. 350-393 AD) and of Isidore of Pelusium (a monastic ascetic and prolific letter-writer in Egypt, c. 360-435 AD). The name was a fairly common one in Late Antiquity, and the person (or persons) addressed cannot be securely identified with any independently documented official or notable. Based on the Libanian connection, he was most likely a member of the educated curial or administrative class in the orbit of Antioch in the later fourth century; nothing more about his career, dates, or family can be established with confidence from the letters alone.