Theophanes of Mytilene

Theopanes Pompeius
Location of Mytilene today, on the Greek island of Lesbos
Born	Not known Mytilene
Died	Not known Rome
Other names	Theophanes of Mytilene
Occupation(s)	Political advisor Historian
Notable work	A history of Pompey's campaigns

Theophanes of Mytilene (Greek: Θεοφάνης ὁ Μυτιληναῖος) was an intellectual and historian from the town of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos who lived in the middle of the 1st century BC.^[1] He was a friend of Pompey and wrote an adulatory history of the latter's expedition to Asia. According to Plutarch Pompey granted privileges to Mytilene for Theophanes' sake.^[2] The people of Mytilene commemorated him as a hero after his death.