Theoklitos Polyeidis

Theoklitos Polyeidis (Greek: Θεόκλητος Πολυειδής) was a Greek scholar, teacher, translator, priest and monk during the period of the Modern Greek Enlightenment.

His most notable work was the Oracles of Agathagelos (Οι χρησμοί του Αγαθάγγελου), a forgery presented as the prophecies of a 13th-century monk. The work was written c. 1750 and became very popular. It had a huge appeal in the court of Catherine II in Saint Petersburg and greatly enhanced philhellenism in the European cities Polyeidis personally visited. The Oracles of Agathagelos was also later republished by Rigas Feraios, promoting the revolutionary spirit of the subjugated Greeks, because they prophesied the future liberation of the Greeks.