Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae : Descriptio ambonis / Pavlvs Silentiarivs ; edidit Clavdio De Stefani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, the Silentiary, 6th cent.

Contributor:

De Stefani, Claudio.

Series:

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana.

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 1864-399X

Standardized Title:

Ekphrasis tou naou tēs Hagias Sophias

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, c2011.

Language Note:

In Greek, Ancient (to 1453).

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

HOC VOLVMINE CONTINENTVR

Praefatio

Conspectus siglorum

Conspectus librorum

Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae

Descriptio Ambonis

Codicis Palatini ortographia et menda leviora

Index locorum similium et in apparatu laudatorum

Index verborum

Notes:

Critical edition.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contains:

Paul, the Silentiary, 6th cent. Ekphrasis tou ambōnos.

ISBN:

1-283-16580-5

9786613165800

3-11-023907-8

OCLC:

723945554