10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METAPHRAST»
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Symeon the Metaphrast was the author of the 10 volume medieval Greek menologion, or collection of saint's lives.
Aaron Philippe Toll, 2012
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The Apostolic Fathers [patres Apostolici]
of Symeon the Metaphrast use the materials much more freely1. With a higher
literary aim, the author recasts both the diction and the incidents, toning down the
ruggedness of the one and rejecting the more revolting features of the other.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot, 1973
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Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word
Olson then moves to another part of the dictionary, presumably to look up the
word "metaphrast," a word referring to one who changes a text from one form into
another — a reflection on the poet's own attempt to render historical materials
into ...
4
The Apology and Acts of Apollonius: and other Monuments of ...
The Acts are found in two forms, namely, Genealogy 0f the texts of that of the
metaphrast of the tenth century, these Aets_ and in an earlier recension by some
anony- I m'ous writer, to whom in my notes I refer as Gk. Anon. The relations of
the ...
5
The General biographical dictionary: containing an ...
After noticing a lamentation of the virgin Mary, as a remarkable piece inserted in
one of Allatius's works, he adds: "This lamentation was composed by Metaphrast,
and that was sufficient for Allatius to insert a panegyric upon Metaphrast, written ...
6
Niketas Choniates: A Historiographical Study
to the editor, these could have only stemmed from the pen of Niketas himself, that
is, they were contained in the original manuscript used by the metaphrast, which
is now lost (443.66, 484.64, 499.51, 511.59, 522.31). The best evidence for ...
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Symeon Metaphrastes: Rewriting and Canonization
... by Symeon magister and Logothetes.10* Canon on Mary the Egyptian by
Symeon, magister and logothetes, the Metaphrast.105 Prayers.106 Hymns.107
Poem on the Ensarkos oikonomia by the Metaphrast edited in Greek with Latin
trans, ...
8
History as Literature in Byzantium: Papers from the Fortieth ...
Notably, in line 15 of the metaphrase, we see the word Innoc, used with the
particle xe: here the metaphrast sticks to classical usage, though admittedly
easily intelligible classical usage, of two lexical items, but one could argue that
from the ...
9
The Rule of Catholic Faith: Or, The Principles and Doctrines ...
We have the acts of St. George edited by Metaphrast,.and I am far from approving
or receiving the legend about Athanasius, the magician. I have also. looked into-
the legends of the saints by J acobus de Voragine, and find much in them to ...
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The Fule of Catholic Faith: Or, The Principles and Doctrines ...
We have the, acts of St. George edited by Metaphrast, and I am far from
approving or receiving the legend about Athanasius, the magician. I have also
looked into the legends of the saints by Jacobus de Yoragine, and find much in
them to ...
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What Happened to the Virgin Mary After Pentecost? (Part 2)
The book was later rewritten by Symeon the Metaphrast (meaning “reteller”), eliminating the unique post-Pentecost material, which would not ... «Patheos, Mar 14»
