Akademik

   Family of Egyptian landowners and officials in the Byzantine Period, known from documents from Oxyrhynchus, where they had estates. The earliest known member appears to have been Flavius Strategius I, who died before 469. His probable son was Apion I, a patrician and vice prefectof the East in 503–504 and later praetorian prefect in the East in 518–519, who held an honorary consulship at the end of the 5th century AD and died between 524 and 532. Other family members included Flavius Strategius II, prefect of Egypt from 518–523, and Flavius Strategius Apion II, consul in 539 who died around 578. The family supported the orthodox imperial view in the religious controversies with the nascent Coptic Church. The last known member was Apion III, who died or disappeared in late 619, possibly a victim of the Persian invasion. The Apions represent one of the few Egyptian families to have exercised political influence on the imperial court.