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Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae. Descriptio Ambonis

Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae. Descriptio Ambonis

Silentiarius, Paulus
Stefani, Claudio De

Hardcover

Series: Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana, Book 3331

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismAncient History General

ISBN10: 3110221268
ISBN13: 9783110221268
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Mar 28 2011
Pages: 211
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

The two poems Descriptio S. Sophiae and Descriptio Ambonis of Paul the Silentiary, composed for the inauguration (562 AD) of the church of St. Sophia (Istanbul) after its partial rebuilding, are an invaluable source for the history of Byzantine arts and a beautiful piece of late Greek poetry. Silentiary's poems respectively describe the church and its (now lost) pulpit. The Descriptio S. Sophiae also contains a lavish praise of emperor Justinian and of the patriarch Eutichius. De Stefani's edition is based on a collation of the witness of the text, Heid. Pal. gr. 23, and takes into account all previous bibliography. Some corrupted passages of the poems have been emendated, the few false readings still present in the text printed by the last, authoritative editor, P. Friedländer (1912), have been corrected.

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