Andronicus

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The name Graeco-Roman nomen Andronicus or Andronikos (Greek: Ανδρόνικος) may refer to several people:

• Livius Andronicus (c.284 BC–204 BC), introduced drama to the Romans and produced the first formal play in Latin in c.240 BC
• Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the second century BC
• Andronicus of Cyrrhus (c.100 BC), Greek astronomer
• Andronicus of Rhodes (c.70 BC), Greek philosopher
• Andronicus of Pannonia (Saint Andronicus), an Apostle of the Seventy mentioned in Romans 16:7
• Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Saint Andronicus), a fourth century martyr
• Andronicus of Alexandria, a soldier, martyr, saint, and companion of Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
• Coptic Pope Andronicus of Alexandria (reigned 616–622)

• Five Byzantine Emperors:
  • Andronikos I Komnenos (1118–1185)
  • Andronikos II Palaiologos (1258–1332)
  • Andronikos III Palaiologos (1297–1341)
  • Andronikos IV Palaiologos (1348–1385)
  • Andronikos V Palaiologos (c.1400–c.1407), Co-Emperor with his father John VII Palaiologos
• Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonike (1403–1429)

• Three Emperors of Trebizond:
  • Andronicus I Gidus Comnenus (1222–[1235)
  • Andronicus II Comnenus (1263–1266)
  • Andronicus III Comnenus (1330–1332)

In fiction:

• Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors
• Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician, a 1646 satire by Thomas Fuller