Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
2011
ISBN:
9783110239072
Series Statement:
Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
Content:
Biographical note: Claudio De Stefani, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italien.
Content:
Biographical note: Claudio De Stefani, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy.
Content:
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, thefew false readings still present in the text printed by the last, authoritative editor, P. Friedländer (1912), have been corrected.
Content:
Main description: 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, thefew false readings still present in the text printed by the last, authoritative editor, P. Friedländer (1912), have been corrected.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110221268
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Paulus, Silentiarius Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2011 ISBN 9783110221268
Language:
Multiple languages
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9783110239072
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Author information:
Paulus Silentiarius
