Anatolius of Berytus

Anatolius, son of Leontius, was a sixth century professor at the Roman law school of Berytus, in what is now Beirut, and a contemporary of the emperor Justinian I. He was summoned to the imperial court at Constantinople and commissioned, along with fellow Berytus professors including Dorotheus, to help draft the Digest, the compilation of Roman legal writings that forms part of Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis. Justinian singled out Anatolius and Dorotheus for particular honor in Tanta, the constitution that introduced the Digest. The law school of Berytus was the Roman Empire's leading center of legal education until its destruction in an earthquake in 551.